The NDSU Museum and Collections (MAC) officially began production in 2024 with the founding principle that NDSU’s museum would represent the unique and varied collections that existed across campus. The founding team thought it was important that there were places on campus where the diversity of research, history, exploration, and wonder could be properly showcased, thus giving rise to MAC.

As one travels through the website and through NDSU’s museum, they will move through both space and time to experience a multitude of collections in way that few museums offer. This museum has removed the physical boundaries of an enclosed building where a singular museum experience can be found and instead has brought the museum experience to various places. As the collections showcase objects from all parts of time—past, present, and future—so too do the portals spread across space on NDSU’s campus and surrounding areas.