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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 Black MSU student, an MSU Museum CoLaborator, wearing a green t-shirt and black vest, leans over a table with her long brunette hair cascading over her shoulders and across her face as she explains various canisters seen in the foreground to visitors.

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The MSU Museum drives impact by inspiring students and supporting their success; collaborating with faculty to advance teaching, learning, and research; engaging its communities in creative ways; and exemplifying excellence through thought-leadership, thereby setting new standards for an academic museum’s role in serving communities.

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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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Text reading "Reality Check: Spotting AI Shenanigans – Workshop" over a distorted digital background with blue and red tones, evoking a glitch or interference effect.

(SOLD OUT) Reality Check: Spotting AI Shenanigans

Event Categories: Blurred Realities

Happening: January 30, 2026, 12:00pm until 2:00pm

Explore truth versus fabrication in the age of generative AI. Participants will evaluate claims about the MSU community—some factual, others AI-generated—using multiple data visualizations: some created by AI, others by human researchers. Through guided discussion questions, you will learn to identify misinformation and understand...

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February 5

XOXO, Let’s Connect

Blurred Realities

5:30pm – 7:00pm

February 6

UNWIND | LOVE

Unwind

7:00pm – 9:00pm

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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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January 28, 2026

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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A Creative CollaboRatory

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(SOLD OUT) Reality Check: Spotting AI Shenanigans

XOXO, Let’s Connect

UNWIND | LOVE

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Speculative Futures: A New MSU Museum Series

Carl Craig Named MSUFCU Arts Power Up Artist-in-Residence

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