What’s So Funny About Science? Sidney Harris Science Cartoons

The Michigan State University Museum will have visitors laughing and learning at the same time when a new exhibition, "What's So Funny About Science? Sidney…

Photo Exchangers: Youth connecting Ghana and the US through cross-cultural communication

"We are doing this project to learn about people outside our homes and families, to learn about others that live in other places like Ghana.…

Visual Griots of Mali: An Exhibition of African Youth Photography

Historians, genealogists, advisors to nobility, entertainers, messengers, storytellers--the griots of West Africa-have long played many roles in the daily life of societies. (Griot (pronounced "gree-oh")…

Tanzania in Deep Time: A View from the Rift Vallery

"Tanzania in Deep Time - A View from the Rift Valley" documents an ongoing research project that has produced a series of exciting fossil discoveries…

Threads of Change – The Transformation of West African Textiles

African art in general and West African textiles in particular are vibrant and changing. West Africa is the heartland of African textile production. From the…

Michigan Eats: Regional Culture Through Food

Earlier this year, "Michigan Foodways" traveled with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients: America by Food" to six sites in Michigan where they were seen by enthusiastic…

We Celebrate Mr. Lincoln’s 200th Birthday

February 12, 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the Michigan State University Museum features "We Celebrate Mr. Lincoln's 200th…

Festive Images

The Michigan State University Museum presents the stirring sights from its popular folk festival in, "Festive Images: The 2009 Great Lakes Folk Festival Exhibition." The…

Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement

The Latino journey in North America began more than five centuries ago, long before the founding of the United States. The ancestors of today's Latinos…