Second Floor Landing

The newly renovated MSU Museum welcomes visitors with a dramatic reimagining of its second-floor landing, where fully articulated African and Asian Elephant skeletons stand alongside the striking return of the Mammoth skull. This iconic trio anchors a fresh interpretive space that invites visitors to consider how art, science, culture, and technology collide to shape our understanding of the world and our place within it. 

Throughout the year, rotating objects and specimens from the museum’s cultural, natural science, and archaeology collections will reveal surprising intersections across disciplines. Each rotation offers new perspectives and poses thought-provoking questions about how exploring the world from multiple angles—scientific, artistic, and cultural—helps us make meaning and feel more connected to one another. 

Discover a space where ancient remains spark new ideas, and where the complexity of the universe comes alive through the power of interdisciplinary exploration.