MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
Saturday September 27, 2025
Join us for the MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, a beloved annual event that celebrates creativity and craftsmanship while supporting the MIT Glass Lab.
Online sales 10 am - 10 pm ET
Live event 10 am - 3 pm rain or shine
Kresge Oval, next to the MIT Student Center, at 84 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139
Nearly 100% of the Glass Lab's annual budget is generated through the sale of glass pumpkins.
When will pumpkins be available online?
Saturday, September 27th: 10 AM - 10 PM
At 10 AM all the pumpkins will appear in the catalog on the top of this page. Prior to that we will be posting select images of this year’s pumpkins at:
https://www.instagram.com/mitglasslab/
In the meantime please familiarize yourself with this site and enjoy pictures from previous Great Glass Pumpkin Patches.
How this will work?
This is not an auction. Each pumpkin has a listed sale price and sizes can be approximated by comparison with a ruler that appears in each photograph next to each pumpkin. All of the pumpkins are one-of-a-kind, so there is only one of each item. All sales are first-come, first-served; pumpkins will become unavailable when a payment transaction for that pumpkin has been completed
Shipping:
All pumpkins will be shipped via FedEx Ground from MIT. The cost of shipping will be added to the sale price of the pumpkin(s) you buy. We regret that we must limit shipping to the Continental United States.
We do not have a separate fulfillment team--the people getting your orders out the door are the same folks who make the glass and teach classes. We will do our best to ship things as quickly as possible, but we ask that you please be patient.
Return policy:
Consistent with our live sale policy, there are no returns on pumpkins except in the case of a serious structural defect such as a crack or very sharp surface. Please shop thoughtfully and carefully. In the unfortunate event that your pumpkin should arrive defective or broken, we will replace it free of charge with one as similar in size, color, and shape as possible.
We are a self-funding program
100% of our annual operating revenue each year comes from the sale of glass pumpkins and from gifts, large and small, made by generous donors.
The MIT Glass Lab is dedicated to offering memorable hands-on experiences for MIT students, faculty and staff, as well as public lectures and events like the MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, that are open to the MIT community and the general public.
Please consider making a donation to help us continue to provide these opportunities. Gifts to the Glass Lab can be made via the MIT Alumni Association at this link:
https://giving.mit.edu/give/to?fundId=3876110
Thank you!