Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (MSU Broad or BAM) is a nonprofit, contemporary art museum designed by Zaha Hadid located on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.

Exhibitions consist largely of contemporary artists, including those achieving their Master of Fine Arts degree at Michigan State University, as well as shows of selected works from the collection.

This collection includes over 10,000 works and growing and represents a wide array of artistic production from the ancient to the present, across the world, in a variety of media.

Significant holdings include Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities; pre-Columbian sculptures and vessels; Medieval and Renaissance illuminations; Old Master paintings; 19th-century American paintings; 20th-century sculpture by artists such as Alexander Calder and Jenny Holzer; and works by contemporary artists such as Chuck Close and Ann Hamilton.

[citation needed] The MSU Broad Art Museum was a location for filming portions of the movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in October 2014.

The internal galleries and public spaces are positioned to create an intentional exchange between the city, its inhabitants, the museum visitor and the art.

A dialog is formed with the town and Grand River Avenue, East Lansing's downtown area, through a visual connectivity between the galleries, plaza, and city.

The floating staircase echoes the exchange with Grand River Avenue via the two-story glazed window opening.

All openings located in the building envelope (the exterior stainless steel pleating) reinforce the physical and visual connectivity and interface between the museum, its visitors, and its context (i.e., the surrounding environment).

The proposed building was to include a minimum of 26,000 square feet (2,400 m2) of gallery space and would accommodate both permanent and temporary exhibitions.

The new facilities would allow MSU's art museum to offer educational opportunities and programming such as lectures by visiting scholars, curators, artists and faculty; seminars, docent training; and special activities for families and school groups.

[citation needed] Construction on the museum began on March 16, 2010, at a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Eli Broad and Zaha Hadid.

The angular facade is composed of pleated stainless steel and glass and was conceived to give the building "an ever-changing appearance that arouses curiosity yet never quite reveals its content."

Specifically, the study predicted that visitors would spend: "We fully expect to be a significant contributor to our local economic engine", said Michael Rush, founding director of the Broad Museum.

Nameplate on the northeast side
South side of the museum
Kresge Art Center
Broad Art Museum from Grand River Ave
The angular design of the coat room
The Minskoff Gallery
Berding Gallery
Berding Gallery
Broad Art Museum from East Circle Drive