Past Exhibitions
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Michigan Bird Conservation Stories: Pigeons Past to Plovers Present
July 27, 2017 - June 30, 2018This exhibit explores Michigan’s bird conservation stories from losses of the past to modern successes including Trumpeter Swans, Sandhill Cranes, and Piping Plovers. See how…
Migration Now
March 17, 2018 - June 9, 2018The artists represented in the “Migration Now" portfolio explore the migration of people around the world, with special attention to those who have come into…
Sympathetic Detail:R. F. Deckert and the Art of Natural History Illustration
November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2017Sympathetic Detail: R.F. Deckert and the Art of Natural History Illustration MSU MUSEUM EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS THE INTERSECTION OF ART & SCIENCE The Art, Science, and…
All My Relations: an Indigenous Perspective on Landscape
March 23, 2017 - September 29, 2017Senior TED Fellow Camille Seaman’s “All My Relations: an Indigenous Perspective on Landscape”, features portions of three of her extended photography projects, “Melting Away,” "The Last Iceberg," and “The Big Cloud.” “Melting Away” and…
Next Stop Atlantic
February 20, 2017 - September 15, 2017Between 2008 and 2011, photographer Stephen Mallon worked on a series entitled, Next Stop Atlantic, where he immersed himself in documenting subway cars being dropped into the Atlantic Ocean.…
Quilted Conversations: Materializing Civil and Human Rights
January 16, 2017 - July 9, 2017Awareness about civil and human rights issues are at the center of a new exhibition opening at the Michigan State University Museum on Martin Luther…
Taking Back Detroit Exhibit
June 24, 2016 - January 31, 2017Rethinking Detroit MSU Museum teams with National Geographic for “Taking Back Detroit? The MSU Museum teams with National Geographic to present "Taking Back Detroit"? inspired by the magazine’s recent feature depicting…
Robofish Rendezvous
April 16, 2016 - January 25, 2017Can a fish improve our lives? It can if it is a robofish! Dr. Xiaobo Tan's team at the MSU College of Engineering developed robotic…
Up Cloche: Fashion, Feminism, Modernity
January 4, 2016 - December 2, 2016Rejecting tradition and embracing more body-conscious styles, the young American "flapper" wore her newly won freedom to vote, earn, and learn on her body: short…