Science on a Sphere® at the MSU Museum

Overview Imagine yourself in a darkened museum gallery. Gradually, four projectors illuminate a giant globe, seeming to float in front of you. You see a…

Under One Sky: Global Connections in an Adire Quilt

This exhibit features the quilt “Midnight Sky,” created by Adesola Kilani Falade in 1997 in Osogbo, Nigeria. Falade is an artist of the Nike Center…

Hall of World Cultures

The Hall of World Cultures artifacts offer a view of traditional cultures from all over the world, including Asia, Africa and the Americas. Through an…

Hall of Evolution

The Hall of Evolution exhibit at the MSU Museum is constructed as a time line with exhibits of fossils arranged in chronological order from the…

Hall of Animal Diversity

Through the display of animals organized by themes of adaptation, the exhibit shows the diversity in animals and different species, and how they have evolved…

Habitat Hall

The Habitat Hall features life-sized dioramas depicting the environments of North America including forests, grasslands, deserts, tropics and the tundra. Also featured are complete, mounted…

Collections Connections

The Michigan State University Museum collects, preserves, studies and interprets cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. This long-term exhibit shows how these collections help address…

Evolution in Action Gallery

Evolution is happening around us in an observable way: that is the focus of a series of exhibits at the Michigan State University Museum. The…

Heritage Hall

Michigan’s cultural heritage is featured with an authentic fur trader’s cabin, a nineteenth century print shop, and a turn-of-the-century general store. The exhibit presents the…

Collections Connections

The Michigan State University Museum collects, preserves, studies, and interprets cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. These collections help us to address questions about the…