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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 “Salt: A Ripple Effect Workshop,” featuring a circular white center with the title text, surrounded by colorful nature elements including a sunflower, red flowers, green leaves, a blue butterfly, a hummingbird, a frog, a spotted gecko, a red mushroom, and a pink-winged insect, set against a textured salt-like background.

(SOLD OUT) Salt: A Ripple Effect

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Salt is something we encounter every day. It flavors our food, preserves medicine, and helps keep roads safe in winter. Yet this familiar mineral also offers a powerful way to think about ecosystems and the many ways humans shape, and are shaped by, the...
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Three MSU students examine clothing on mannequins in a studio or exhibit space; one holds a printed document while two others adjust a beige cape with a red lining, smiling and conversing.

Student-Curated Exhibition on MSU Traditions

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The MSU Museum invites the public to an opening reception for What If We Kissed in the Shadows of Beaumont Tower?: Connecting Generations through MSU Student Traditions on Friday, April 24 from 4:30–6:00 p.m. The exhibition, developed by students in Michigan
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Promotional graphic for an event titled "Museum of Alternative History: Gallery Talk with Tim Guthrie." The left side features white text over a red and blue digitally distorted background. The right side shows a blurred image of a modern gallery space with white pedestals and sculptural objects, overlaid with glitch-like effects, evoking themes of revisionist narratives and altered perceptions of history.

What Shapes Truth? Inside the “Museum of Alternative History”

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The MSU Museum invites the public to a timely and thought-provoking talk with artist Tim Guthrie on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. Presented as part of the Museum’s Blurred Realities exhibition, this program explores how artificial intelligence, bias, and
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