Exhibits

Botanical Art & Illustration Through the Ages

This exhibit showcases the 150-year history and legacies of W.J. Beal’s garden’s influences with artifacts from Special Collections, Univ. Archives, and the W.J. Beal Dept. Utilized by the MSU community and visitors, the original intent of Beal’s pioneering garden has remained consistent – it’s a place to learn, a place to experiment, a place to sow, and a place to grow.

For Better For Worse

A collection of early modern, English, conduct books offering helpful advice of the period on conduct, behavior, morals, values, spirituality, education, letter writing, personal relationships, and practical topics. This exhibit is about marriage advice in some of these books.

A Catalog of Early Works in Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection

For over a half-century the MSU Libraries has been acquiring and building an important collection of materials devoted to early bee keeping. The Baker Collection is especially strong in apiculture works printed in English, although other languages are well represented.

Healing Waters of Bath

Bath U.K.’s famous geothermal hot springs have attracted people since prehistoric times.  From the 17^th century, people claimed the water had curative properties if one drank or bathed in it. Bath became a popular spa town, a place to live in and vacation at, to see and to be seen. 

Feeding America

The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.The Michigan State University Library and the