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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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On a white background, quarter circle shapes in shades of pink and purple spell "UNWIND" in a creative way. Other text reads "Unwind, Your once a month exhale. LOVE." Features MSU Museum and MSUFCU logos in the bottom right.

UNWIND | LOVE

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UNWIND Your once-a-month exhale. Created for MSU students, UNWIND is a monthly series from the MSU Museum that offers a chance to relax, recharge, and reset. From art and music to movement and mindfulness, each event is designed to help you take a well-deserved pause. LOVE Join the MSU Museum...
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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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Abstract digital collage in cyan and white featuring fragmented facial illustrations, musical notations, sound wave diagrams, and blurred blue shapes overlaying the composition. Elements of text are partially visible throughout, including phrases like “Respond to the guitarist” and “in a daze.” The image combines graphic, musical, and anatomical motifs in a layered, surreal style.

Speculative Futures: A New MSU Museum Series

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MSU Museum Launches Speculative Futures Program Series Exploring Imagination, Identity, and What Comes Next The MSU Museum announces the launch of Speculative Futures, a new year-long public program series that brings together artists, scholars, and community members to explore how speculative thinking
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