East Lansing Tourist Attractions
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East Lansing, home to Michigan State University, began with the first houses, known as Faculty Row, which were built on the college campus in the 1850's.
MSU Museum
Founded in 1857, Michigan State University Museum is one of the oldest museums in the Midwest. Over 2.5 million objects or specimens of cultural and natural history from around the world are housed here. Collections include biological from the Department of Natural Resources and archaeological from the Bureau of History.
Michigan State University
Michigan State is a pioneer land-grant university that began as three buildings and has grown to a 5,320-acre educational complex. The campus has a library with over 4 million volumes; the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education; the Munn Ice Arena and Beal Botanical Garden.
Bug House
The Bug House was created by the Department Entomology at Michigan State University in 1996. The facility was geared to children from kindergarten through 6th grade. The collection on display at the Bug House includes a vast array of creepy crawlers. These creatures range in size from moths as large as bats to tiny wasps smaller than grains of sand.
Kresge Art Museum
Kresge Art Museum was founded in 1959 and houses Michigan State University's collection of more than 6,500 works of art. The collection includes Greek, Roman and Egyptian artifacts; Medieval and Renaissance illuminations; as well as European and American paintings, prints and sculptures as well as art and artifacts from African, Asian, pre-Columbian and Islamic cultures.
Abrams Planetarium
The Talbert and Leota Abrams Planetarium serves as an astronomy and space science education resource center for central Michigan. The planetarium houses an exhibit hall, a blacklight gallery of astronomical art, and a hemispherical domed sky theater.
Beaumont Tower
The Beaumont Tower houses the MSU carillon containing 49 bells and plays the full range of literature composed for the instrument. The first ten bells were installed in 1928, with thirteen additional bells installed in 1935, so that the instrument became a carillon.
Television Studio
Located in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, the three studios and other facilities are available for live programming and student training.
