The MSU Museum serves the Michigan State University community by facilitating and creating experiences at the nexus of the arts, sciences, cultures, and technologies. The Museum is an innovative and experimental collaboratory that exists to catalyze creativity. Here, people can openly explore, express, and experiment with ideas across disciplines and interests, and indulge their natural curiosity about the world. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is the state’s first Smithsonian Affiliate. Since 1857, the Museum has been collecting objects and specimens and creating exhibitions that reflect our shared histories and experiences. Collections and exhibitions are used as a catalyst in teaching, learning, and research creating a vital collaboratory for student and faculty success.

Every year in April, over the course of multiple days, the MSU Science Festival invites the public to experience more than 250 presentations and hands-on activities on the MSU campus and at venues across the state. There's something for everyone at the Science Festival, with presentations geared for all ages and interests. The mission of the MSU Science Festival is to celebrate the many ways science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (the STEAM disciplines) touch our everyday lives and shape our future. The 2020 Festival was virtual and the 2021 Festival will be as well.

Built from the ground up, the MSU Surplus Store & Recycling Center (SSRC) has always been driven by the ambitions and aspirations of the MSU community. Over the last few decades SSRC developed an integrated system of reuse, recycling, composting, and upcycling that operationalizes the department’s mission—to manage MSU’s waste as a resource.  Waste minimization is a collective effort, made of countless choices informed not only by awareness, knowledge, and access, but by experiences that shape and motivate.  To that end, SSRC offers free year-round programming.