Tagged: eli and edythe broad museum

Arts & Culture
6:11 pm
Wed November 14, 2012

Art world, meet East Lansing: could new museum change downtown?

Credit Photo Courtesy of MSU News
The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

East Lansing is your classic college town: a laid-back mix of beer, bongs and bookstores.  

But with the opening of a $45 million modern art museum, suddenly the international world is paying attention to "good 'ol Michigan State."

As Michigan Radio's Kate Wells reports, some locals like the attention more than others. 

For something right across from a Taco Bell, the Broad art museum sure smells like money.

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Arts/Culture
10:20 am
Sat March 24, 2012

MSU Broad Art Museum pushes back opening, touts "virtual" museum experience

Credit Photo courtesy of the Broad Art Museum
Users use Flickr™ to create a cloud of spatial imagery in the virtual museum

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University will not open April 21st as scheduled due to construction problems. Instead, the contemporary art museum will open sometime this fall.

But for those who just can’t wait to see what the inside of the Zaha Hadid-designed museum looks like, the folks at the Broad have created a “virtual” museum that anyone from anywhere in the world can access:

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Arts/Culture
2:05 pm
Wed January 18, 2012

MSU's Broad Museum faces unexpected construction delay

Credit (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
Eli Broad, businessman, art collector and Michigan State Universitry benefactor

A new multi-million dollar art museum at Michigan State University will open months later than planned.   

The Eli and Edythe Broad museum was supposed to be dedicated in April on the East Lansing campus. But Michigan State University officials say supply problems are affecting work on the building.  

A university spokeswoman says the building’s specially designed glass windows are the source of the problem.   

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