MSU Museum

Past curators include J. Alan Holman.

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The MSU museum cultural and historical collections include anthropology, folklife, cultural heritage, and history.{{cite web |title=Cultural and Historical Collections – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/cultural-and-historical-collections/ |access-date=January 13, 2023}}

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The MSU museum natural science collections include mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, ichthyology, and vertebrate paleontology.{{cite web |title=Natural Science Collections – MSU Museum|url=https://museum.msu.edu/natural-science-collections/ |access-date=January 13, 2023}}

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The MSU Museum’s archaeological collection, consisting of well over a million artifacts, emphasizes Michigan archaeology, with a geographic focus on the Lower Peninsula and the pre-contact eastern Upper Peninsula. This includes a robust assemblage from the Saginaw Basin, Traverse Corridor, and eastern Upper Peninsula of Native American artifacts, as well as historical fort site collections from Michigan’s early colonial history. Noteworthy sites from the MSU campus, such as Saint’s Rest, are also included. The archaeology collections are jointly managed and cursated by the MSU Department of Anthropology and the MSU Museum.

The museum hosts exhibitions to highlight the collections and complementary programs and works some rotating some permanent spread over the three floors of the museum.

• Habitat Hall – Various dioramas of North and Central America's environments and animals as well as dinosaurs and Jurassic dinosaur skeletons.{{cite web |title=Habitat Hall – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=habitat-hall |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Heritage Hall – Highlights the Great Lakes region's economic history.{{cite web |title=Heritage Hall – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=heritage-hall |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Hall of Animal Diversity – Highlights different animals and their adaptions to their habitats.{{cite web |title=Hall of Animal Diversity – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=hall-of-animal-diversity |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Collections Connections – allows visitors to see some of the cultural artifacts and natural history specimens and show how these are stored to study and preserve for the future.{{cite web |title=Collections Connections – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=collections-connections |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Hall of Evolution – A timeline of fossils from the Cambrian period to the Pleistocene epoch.{{cite web |title=Hall of Evolution – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=hall-of-evolution |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Second floor landing – Exploring biodiversity of things big and small. It includes a skeletons of an African bush elephant as well as an Asian elephant and a skull of a Columbian mammoth.{{cite web |title=Second Floor Landing – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=second-floor-landing |access-date=January 25, 2023}}

• 1.5 °C – Explore the impact of climate on our planet.{{cite web |title=1.5 °C – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=1-5-celsius |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• We All Live Downwind –{{cite web |title=We All Live Downwind – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=we-all-live-downwind |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Gameplay – Experience games developed at MSU's Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL Lab).{{cite web |title=Gameplay – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=gameplay |access-date=January 25, 2023}}
• Science on a Sphere – A projection sphere of visualizations of Earth and other locations highlighting a variety of data visualizations an exhibit supported by the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union{{cite web |title=Science On a Sphere – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=sos |access-date=January 25, 2023}}

• Kindred – featured Odawa arts and crafts including ceramics, basketry, and beadwork from the Waganakising Odawa aka Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.{{cite web |last1=Jokisch Polo |first1=Michelle |title=MSU Museum celebrates the work of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians |url=https://www.wkar.org/wkar-news/2022-05-18/msu-museum-celebrates-the-work-of-the-little-traverse-bay-bands-of-odawa-indians |website=WKAR Public Media |access-date=January 25, 2023 |language=en |date=May 18, 2022}}
• Michigan Barns: Timber-framed, Plank and Polebarn – featured in July 1, 2003 – July 31, 2003{{cite web |title=Michigan Barns: Timber-framed, Plank and Polebarn – MSU Museum |url=https://museum.msu.edu/?exhibition=michigan-barns-timber-framed-plank-and-polebarn |access-date=January 25, 2023}}

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum another museum at Michigan State University.

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