After a 18 month renovation hiatus, the MSU Museum is back open and is FREE to the public.
The MSU Museum hosts three floors to explore with rotating exhibits and lots of learning opportunities. It is one of the three Smithsonian affiliated Museums in Michigan and is definitely worth exploring. The renovated second floor features African and Asian Elephant skeletons stand alongside the striking return of the Mammoth skull. This iconic trio anchors a fresh interpretive space that invites visitors to consider how art, science, culture, and technology collide to shape our understanding of the world and our place within it.
Throughout the year, rotating objects and specimens from the museum’s cultural, natural science, and archaeology collections will reveal surprising intersections across disciplines. Each rotation offers new perspectives and poses thought-provoking questions about how exploring the world from multiple angles—scientific, artistic, and cultural.
Habitat Hall on the third-floor features life-sized dioramas depicting the major habitats of North and Central America including forests, grasslands, deserts, tropics and the tundra. Each has hoofed mammals and other animals, showing their adaptations to the different environments. Also featured are complete, mounted articulated skeleton casts of two of the great Jurassic dinosaurs, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus, and several smaller displays related to dinosaurs.
The MSU Museum is open Tuesdays-Sunday’s 10am-5pm. Admission is free, but registration is required. You can register online here. There is very limited parking at the Museum itself. We recommend parking at the Grand River Avenue Ramp or the Division Parking Garage.
MSU Museum // 409 W Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI 48823
