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

Michigan State University’s campus sits on the land the Anishinaabeg call Nkwejong — "where the rivers meet."

Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodéwadmi peoples. The University’s campus resides on the traditional Lands of the Saginaw Band of Chippewa, ceded under coercive or violent circumstances in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. Michigan State University is supported through the Land Grant Act, where 10.7 million acres were taken from 245 Tribal nations through the treaty system to fund and establish agricultural colleges. Michigan State University was established on and with 235,193 acres of Anishinaabe Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw and the 1836 Treaty of Washington.

Michigan State University recognizes, supports and advocates for the sovereignty of Anishinaabe Nations from the Great Lakes area, 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 ourselves more accountable to the needs of Indigenous peoples and to the creation of equitable and fair policies for years to come.