Past Exhibitions
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MSU Museum Rings in the Holiday with “Krampus” Display
December 1, 2015 - January 31, 2016"Krampus: the Holiday Devil" a new display at Michigan State University Museum features a number of historical and contemporary Krampus figures from the Val Roy…
Michigan and the Civil War
April 11, 2011 - June 30, 2015Drawn from the MSU Museum's historical collection, the exhibit highlights Michigan connections in the Civil War. Notably, the entire first graduating class of the Michigan…
Land of the Feathered Dragons: China and the Origin of Birds
May 18, 2015 - November 25, 2015Selections from the exhibit: The First Feather: Archaeopteryx ... In 1861, a fossilized feather, beautifully preserved in 150 million year old limestone near Solnhofen in…
Michigan Folksong Legacy: Grand Discoveries From the Great Depression
March 2, 2015 - October 18, 2015In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax—destined to become one of the legendary folklorists of the 20th century—came from Washington, DC to…
Deep-Play: Creativity in Math & Art through Visual Wordplay
July 1, 2014 - September 13, 2015A new exhibit at the MSU Museum invites visitors to look deeply and decipher playful and thought-provoking visual wordplay. "Deep-Play: Creativity in Math and Art…
Seeing China: Photographic Views and Viewpoints
January 19, 2015 - August 30, 2015"Seeing China: Photographic Views and Viewpoints" presents the work of six contemporary, non-Chinese photographers, and stereographs, from the MSU Museum’s collection, made in China between…
#GLFF: Great Lakes Folk Festival Community Photographs
June 14, 2015 - August 10, 2015The MSU Museum, coordinator of the annual Great Lakes Folk Festival (GLFF) in downtown East Lansing is highlighting community photographs posted to social media during the 2014…
Michigan and the Civil War
April 11, 2011 - June 30, 2015Drawn from the MSU Museum's historical collection, the exhibit highlights Michigan connections in the Civil War. Notably, the entire first graduating class of the Michigan…
Growing Up Digital in Michigan and Morocco
November 16, 2014 - June 10, 2015Through the African and American Museum Professionals Mentoring/Exchange Program, funded by the Getty Foundation,the Michigan State University Museum has been matched with the Maroc Telecom Museum in…