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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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Graphic with the text "Visual Realities – Short Film Screening, Talk, & Conversation" on a red and blue abstract background. The right side features a realistic digital rendering of a woman with medium skin tone, long dark hair with bangs, and a neutral expression, set against a dark gradient background with subtle glitch-like elements.

Visual Realities

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How do you trust what you see? Is something posed or staged still real? Join us for a screening of Elysia marginata from New York City-based filmmakers Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher. This genre-defying short film blends AI-generated content with documentary footage and virtual reality to craft...
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Speculative Futures | The Future is Feminine

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An Evening of Poetry and Collective Imagination for Women’s History Month The Michigan State University Museum will present Speculative Futures | The Future is Feminine on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, from 6:00–7:30 p.m. in the MSU Museum Commons. Presented as part of
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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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