Art Complex Museum

The Art Complex Museum was established as gift from the Weyerhaeuser family to the South Shore communities of Massachusetts. The museum showcases the family’s diverse collections which include an authentic Japanese tea hut, Shaker furniture, American paintings, Old Masters prints, and Japanese ceramics. The museum was intended to do more than showcase the family’s collections, and regular exhibits of regional contemporary artists, weekend concerts, and other activities make it a lively place. However, fifty years after opening, the museum’s facilities and systems were no longer meeting its needs.

Museum Insights developed a facility master plan, which included recommended updates to building systems, reconfiguring office space, collection storage, and exhibit preparation areas, and converting the former library to a new, permanent, exhibit to honor the museum’s founders. The Art Complex staff is very small and mostly part-time, so Museum Insights stayed on to support the museum team with tasks like selecting an architect, landscape architect, construction manager, and exhibit designer and helping the team manage these contractors. At the project's conclusion, both indoor and outdoor spaces were upgraded to meet current needs and prepared the museum for another 50 years of service to its community.