A Zaha Hadid-designed art gallery at Michigan State University opened its doors last month. The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be an educational resource, as well as a community and cultural hub, and features work from Salvador Dali, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol.

“Great art deserves great architecture, and so does a great university," says MSU president, Lou Anna Simon.

"The Broad Museum's bold concept and design reflect Michigan State's ethos of connecting both campus and community to world-class innovation, global vision and transformative opportunity.”

Donor, Eli Broad, who provided US$28m (£17.4m, 21.5m euro) of the US$40m (£24.8m, 30.7m euro) budget, says the bold architecture will be as much of a draw as the artwork and believes it will propel the MSU into the future.

The first three exhibitions, which run until February 2013, are Global Groove, celebrating video as an artform; In Search of Time, featuring artwork from the Broad MSU collection, Broad Art Foundation and other borrowed artworks and Domestic Integrities, an exhibition by artist, Fritz Haeg.