Arts and Collections
at Michigan State University

Explore the spaces and resources that drive creativity on the campus of this proudly public research university

Discover Stories of Impact

Bold, collaborative, and driven to make a difference, University Arts and Collections have a transformative impact—on campus and across Michigan. 

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Fusing Art and Science

This artist residency program gives artists and researchers an extraordinary opportunity to discover side-by-side.

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Cultivating Connection

At the Beal Botanical Garden, art and nature come together to celebrate the interconnectivity of people, plants, and place. 

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Slow Down, Look Closely

The MSU Broad Art Museum redefines what it means to spend time with art through this space dedicated to object-based learning.

Cultural Anchors for Campus and for Michigan

University Arts and Collections brings together the Beal Botanical Garden and Campus Arboretum, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the MSU Museum, and Wharton Center for Performing Arts to advance the kind of learning and discovery that characterizes a world-leading, proudly public research university. 

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Land Acknowledgment

We collectively acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s 12 federally recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.