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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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Promotional graphic for a poetry slam event titled "Blurred Realities." The text appears in bold, translucent letters against a red and blue distorted digital background, evoking themes of perception, identity, and the merging of virtual and physical worlds. Subtle glitch effects and fragmented visual elements enhance the surreal atmosphere.

(SOLD OUT) Blurred Realities Poetry Slam

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Poets from MSU and the greater Lansing community will write and perform original work exploring changing notions of authenticity and mis/dis/information in an era shaped by AI and digital surrogates. Competing for three cash prizes, performers will be scored by community judges selected at...
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Promotional graphic for an event titled "Museum of Alternative History: Gallery Talk with Tim Guthrie." The left side features white text over a red and blue digitally distorted background. The right side shows a blurred image of a modern gallery space with white pedestals and sculptural objects, overlaid with glitch-like effects, evoking themes of revisionist narratives and altered perceptions of history.

What Shapes Truth? Inside the “Museum of Alternative History”

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The MSU Museum invites the public to a timely and thought-provoking talk with artist Tim Guthrie on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. Presented as part of the Museum’s Blurred Realities exhibition, this program explores how artificial intelligence, bias, and
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Promotional graphic for a poetry slam event titled "Blurred Realities." The text appears in bold, translucent letters against a red and blue distorted digital background, evoking themes of perception, identity, and the merging of virtual and physical worlds. Subtle glitch effects and fragmented visual elements enhance the surreal atmosphere.

Nationally Acclaimed Poet Mahogany L. Browne to Co-Host Poetry Slam

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, the MSU Museum invites the community to the Blurred Realities Poetry Slam on April 9, 2026, an evening of original spoken word performance exploring how truth is shaped and challenged in today’s media landscape. Co-hosted
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