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  • GIFTS GALORE: HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT THE MUSEUM STORE
    12/15/2011 - 1:08pm
  • NEW ON VIEW: 'THE AMERICAN KITCHEN'
    11/29/2011 - 4:28pm
    Museum Studies Program undergraduate students in professor Susan J. Bandes' Curatorial Practices course have assembled and
  • MSU Museum's Val Berryman rings in the holidays at Williamston Depot Museum
    11/22/2011 - 11:22am
    The Williamston Depot Museum is hosting two events at the museum in December featuring MSU Museum Curator of History Val Roy Berryman, a Williamston resident and museum board member.
  • MSU Museum’s Great Lakes Folk Festival: NEA ANNOUNCES 863 GRANTS AND $22.5 MILLION IN FUNDING
    11/18/2011 - 4:14pm
      Grants include Art Works and creative writing fellowships At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota this week, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. The awards total $22.543 million, encompass 15 artistic disciplines and fields, and support projects in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
  • New on view: ARCTIC ANIMALS, REAL & IMAGINARY -- CANADIAN INUIT PRINTS
    11/18/2011 - 4:09pm
      Contemporary Inuit Life: From Camps to Settlements The three Inuit printmakers featured in the MSU Museum entry hall grew up “on the land” in traditional small, semi-nomadic camps. In the late 1940s hunting conditions and the fur trade declined. To ameliorate starvation and other concerns, the Canadian government encouraged, even coerced the Inuit to move to designated permanent settlements where health, educational and social services were available. Printmaking and the Co-operative System
  • Holiday shopping! NEW AT THE MUSEUM STORE
    11/18/2011 - 3:15pm
    Popular this year: totes, clutches, coin purses, lunch sacks made from your favorite magazines, newspapers and cartoons! Made from recycled materials and cut, sewn and laminated for extra durability. Many great gift-giving options!  Hawaiian artist Mckenna Hallett converted a Singer Sewing Machine foot treadle to grind and sand her various metals – many from old radiators, yes radiators -- to make fun and distinctive Low Impact Jewelry. Prices vary; quantities limited.
  • Visitors, please note: MSU MUSEUM CLOSED THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
    11/18/2011 - 3:05pm
    The MSU Museum will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 24 - Sunday, Nov. 27. Regular hours resume on Monday, Nov. 28 at 9 a.m.
  • EAST LANSING FILM FESTIVAL, NOW THROUGH NOV. 17
    11/11/2011 - 4:32pm
    The East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF) is the largest and most diverse film festival in Michigan to screen independent and foreign feature, documentary, short and students films from around the world. The ELFF was created in 1997 in cooperation with the City of East Lansing and Michigan State University. Since then, ELFF has been dedicated to bringing quality foreign and independent films to the state of Michigan in order to expose our audience to diverse cultures, ideas, and creative works.
  • A CALL TO ACTION: WORLD WAR I POSTERS
    11/11/2011 - 4:32pm
    In honor of Armistice Day, now called Veterans Day, the MSU Museum presents a display of World War I posters. The posters are on exhibit through Nov. 20 in the Ground Floor Entry Hall.
  • EIGHT-POINTED STAR QUILT
    11/11/2011 - 4:30pm
    Women's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Post Mancelona, Antrim County, Michigan, 1894 On Thursday, May 10, 1894, the Mancelona Herald carried the following news item: A G.A.R. social was held at the post rooms in this village Saturday evening at which speeches were made and a very pleasant time was had. A patchwork quilt containing the name, company and regiment of each member of post was sold at auction and W.R. Rice being the highest bidder, the same was struck off to him. The quilt netted the society about $15.


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