The MSU Museum Store is open extended hours to 7 p.m., on Wednesdays, Nov. 4 and 11. A special MSU Museum Store holiday benefit sale includes gifts, books and toys that celebrate world cultures and natural history. Visitors and shoppers can discover exotic jewelry, fair trade crafts and fun accessories. A new line-up of educational toys encourages social interaction, creative growth and reflection. All proceeds benefit the MSU Museum.

Check out more here: http://museum.msu.edu/GeneralInformation/MuseumStore/
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The MSU Museum Store is located on the main floor of the MSU Museum, on West Circle Drive next to the Beaumont Tower on the MSU campus. For more information, call: (517) 355-2373. Limited visitor parking is available in front of the MSU Museum building or in the Grand River Ave. ramp, at the corner of Grand River Ave. and Charles St., just one block away.

A Day of the Dead Celebration drop-in activity on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2-4 p.m., features creating decorative sugar skulls, a common symbol of the holiday.

El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient Mexican celebration in which families reconnect with departed ancestors. The day provides a special opportunity to remember and celebrate the lives and legacy of those who are deceased. Sugar skulls are a traditional display to celebrate the Day of the Dead -- colorfully decorated with icing, and pieces of bright foil. The colorful skulls are often placed on tombs or used to decorate altars made to honor the lives of departed loved ones.

A $1 donation is encouraged for this activity to cover the cost of materials.

Currently on exhibit through Nov. 12 in the MSUM Community Gallery is a Day of the Dead exhibition created by MSU faculty member Juan Javier Pescador. The MSU Museum features three floors of special collections and changing exhibits and is open seven days a week free of charge (donations are encouraged). Located on West Circle Drive next to Beaumont Tower on the MSU campus in East Lansing, the MSU Museum is accessible to persons with disabilities. Hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. -5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. Visitor parking is available in front of the building and at metered spaces at the Grand River Ramp, one block away at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Charles Street. For more information, call (517) 355-2370 or see http://museum.msu.edu .

Each November, Michigan State University joins institutions across the country in celebrating International Education Week. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, International Education Week was established "to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States."

MSU considers international education and engagement to be cornerstones of its institutional mission. The wide range of MSU International Education Week activities

• foster a greater sense of global community on campus;
• encourage a greater awareness of other peoples, other countries, world affairs, and their influence on our lives, among the University's various constituencies;
• inform the MSU family and surrounding community of the various ways the university is engaged in international teaching, scholarship, and engagement; and
• inspire an even stronger commitment among students, faculty, and staff to becoming more globally educated.

MSU Museum Curator of History will install an exhibit in the International Center, "The World in Miniature," with selection of dolls in national costumes from all over the world, which comes from a recent collection from donor Doris Neilson.

Learn more about International Education Week events here: http://www.iew.msu.edu/

Tanzania in Deep Time -- A View from the Rift Valley (West Gallery)

http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/current/tanzaniaInDeepTime.html

Threads of Change--The Transformation of West African Textiles (Main Gallery)

http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/current/the_transformation_of_west_african_textiles.html

In case you missed the live broadcast, you can hear MSU Museum assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology Pamela C. Rasmussen as a featured guest on an Oct. 31 presentation of the national "Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?" broadcast from the MSU Concert Auditorium.

Rasmussen, an ornithologist and assistant professor of zoology at MSU, specializes in birds of South Asia and recently helped in the rediscovery of a rare Banggai crow thought to be extinct.

Go here, http://www.notmuch.com/Show/ , and each show segment is highlighted.

Michigan Radio and the Wharton Center brought the broadcast of "Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know?" to East Lansing. The program is a fast-paced two hour comedy/quiz/interview show, currently broadcast on nearly 300 public radio stations across the United States.