News Articles | Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

2013.6.12

Along the main drag north of the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing lies the usual dowdy mix of Gothic-inspired classroom buildings and rundown frat houses. Then, a canted, glass-and-stainless-steel building, in the shape of a parallelogram, radicalizes the streetscape.

This is the Broad Art Museum, only the second permanent architectural project in the United States by the London-based architect Zaha Hadid. And it resides unexpectedly on the northern edge of the green and sprawling university campus.

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International appeal: Museum extends reach of MSU, Greater Lansing

2013.4.29

Before it opened in November, local officials referred the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum as a game-changer in the region’s arts and culture landscape. So far the museum is living up to its hype. “We have an iconic building that is already proving to be an attraction for people from several parts of the world,” said Michael Rush, founding director of the museum at Michigan State University. “We’ve had more than 65,000 people come through the museum since it opened in November.”

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