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Discover how University Arts and Collections makes a difference in the lives of Spartans and communities across Michigan.

 

About University Arts and Collections

 

Michigan State University Arts and Collections supports units across campus that present significant artistic and intellectual collections and programs. Bringing together the Beal Botanical Garden and Campus Arboretum, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the MSU Museum, and Wharton Center for Performing Arts within the academic portfolio of the Office of the Provost allows for these four key public-facing institutions to advance the kind of learning and discovery that characterizes a world-leading, proudly public research university in ways that serve both campus and the state of Michigan. 

 

University Arts and Collections also drives several programs and initiatives to advance the arts on campus, including housing campus-wide arts strategy, Arts MSU, co-steering the Public Art on Campus Committee, and managing the university's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation program.

 

 

 

University Arts and Collections Pride Points

 

  • Beal Botanical Garden is the oldest continuously operated university botanical garden in the United States.

  • As one of the greenest campuses in the U.S., our campus-wide arboretum is home to over 20,000 trees.

  • The MSU Broad Art Museum is one of only five international museums designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid and her first freestanding building in the United States.

  • The MSU Broad Art Museum is also home to the largest collection of Zaha Hadid Design works in North America.

  • The MSU Museum is Michigan’s first Smithsonian Affiliate.

  • Wharton Center is the largest performing arts center in Michigan, and is often cited as a favorite venue of performers and national touring companies.

  • Nearly 400 students representing almost every college at MSU work in paid, mentored internships with University Arts and Collections units each year.

  • University Arts and Collections units welcome several hundred thousand visitors from over 850 Michigan zip codes annually.