Museum of Science, Boston Museum of Science, Boston Feb. 9,
1959: Construction of the central building of the Museum of
Science was underway. The cornerstone for the East Wing and
Planetarium, which opened in 1951 and are shown to the right,
was laid on Dec. 14, 1949. Into a copper box sealed within the
cornerstone went a front page of the Dec. 14 Boston Evening
Globe, samples of soils from all the New England states, and
messages from the six New England governors. Edwin Land,
inventor of the Polaroid Land instant camera, took pictures of
the event that were also included. Dec. 11, 1962 : Having lunch
at the table and enjoying the view of Boston from the Skylight
Room Cafeteria were (from left) David Harper of Chapel Hill,
N.C., Marie Gilmartin of Wollaston, and Rick Hausman of New
York. The Skylight Room sat atop the newly opened Countway
Memorial Building, named for the late Boston industrialist
Francis A. Countway. The multimillion-dollar seven-story
structure was made possible by a gift from his sister,