Aiming to serve as both an educational resource for the campus community and a cultural hub, the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is dedicated to explore the global contemporary culture and ideas through art.
Designed with bold concept and architectural details, the museum reflects Michigan State’s efforts to connect both campus and community to world-class innovation, global vision, and transformative opportunity.
The architectural details of the museum exhibits a sharp, directed body, which comprises directional pleats reflecting the topographic and circulatory characteristics of its surrounding landscape. Reflecting different directions and orientations, the exterior of the building sports an ever-changing appearance.
Different pathways are brought together in the interior spaces on which people move through and around the site. These interconnecting geometries create a series of spaces, which offer a variety of adjacencies allowing many different interpretations when designing exhibitions. Through this complexity, curators can interpret different leads and connections, different perspectives and relationships.
Giving prime importance to cultural engagement, the museum has been designed to invite the dialogue with the university, the community of East Lansing and beyond. The museum will also present contemporary works within a historical context through access to a study collection of more than 7,500 objects, ranging from the Greek and Roman periods to modern art.
The museum opened on 10 November 2012.
