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The MSU Museum serves the Michigan State University community by facilitating and creating experiences at the nexus of the arts, sciences, cultures, and technologies.

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A Creative CollaboRatory

The CoLab Studio is an innovative laboratory within the MSU Museum that develops timely and relevant programs designed to be novel, transient, and experimental. This approach enables the MSU Museum team to explore new methods for designing and implementing programming, informal learning, and community engagement. To this end, the CoLab Studio helps to push the boundaries of what it means to be a 21st-century interdisciplinary museum.

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In a colorful exhibit space painted bright yellow and green, an MSU student working as an MSU Museum CoLaborator explains the exhibit to two visitors dressed in winter coats. In front of the visitors sits a table spread with different cutlery and containers full of natural decomposition materials such as mushrooms and vermicompost.

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Promotional graphic for an event titled "Clone of the Dance: Talk with Peter Sparling." The left side displays white text over a red and blue abstract digital background. The right side features a distorted, glitched image of dancers in dynamic poses under purple lighting, suggesting themes of movement, duplication, and digital manipulation.

Clones of the Dance

Event Categories: Blurred Realities
For decades, Peter Sparling, emeritus professor at U of M and alumnus of the Martha Graham Dance Company, filmed himself dancing against greenscreen, using chromakey effects to place his singular or multiplied figure into video landscapes. This practice fractures his narrative self into multiple viewpoints, creating playful...
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MSU Museum Awarded $65K NEA Grant for Upcoming Exhibition

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The Michigan State University Museum has been awarded a $65,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Reality Check, a forward-looking exhibition exploring rapid developments in artificial intelligence and the impact on society. The
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Ascent Act II Celebrates Creativity and Collaboration

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What happens when James Beard-recognized chefs, student musicians, and projection artists take over a museum for one night? The Michigan State University Museum invites you to find out. Ascent Act II returns on Friday, March 20, from 6:00–9:00 p.m., transforming the
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