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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 “Speculative Futures: Afrofuturism & the Art of Stacey Robinson.” The design features bold black and neon green text over a stylized, high-contrast abstract illustration of a face. The bottom left corner includes logos for the Michigan State University Museum and the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University.

Speculative Futures | Afrofuturism

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As the United States turns 250, the Speculative Futures series looks ahead, spotlighting artists, poets, scholars, and storytellers who imagine what comes next. Through programs celebrating Black History, Women’s History, AAPI Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and Native American Heritage Months, the series asks how visionary...
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Illustrations of science collections fill the space, overlapping in different colors. Left, a large black and white butterfly. Across the top, two pink beetles. On the right, a stegosaurus skeleton. Text in two black boxes reads “SciCurious: Fall in Love with Science”

SciCurious Sparks a Love for Science on Valentine’s Day

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The MSU Museum invites the community to SciCurious, an interactive science-themed event that brings Michigan State University’s research collections to life on Saturday, February 14, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the MSU Museum (409 W. Circle Dr., East
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White and blue text on a navy background reads "X-Ray Vision Fish Inside Out" and has images of four x-rays of fish, including three "lookdown" fish with sloping foreheads and one large "Wedge-tail Triggerfish" on the right. The bones are visible in white against the black background.

Smithsonian X-Ray Images Offer a Rare Look Inside Fish at the MSU Museum

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The Michigan State University Museum invites visitors to look beneath the surface of the natural world in X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out, a visually compelling exhibition that reveals the skeletal structures of fish through dramatic black-and-white X-ray imagery. Organized by the
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