Mattatuck Museum receives 2025 Buildy Award Honorable Mention

The Muskegon Museum of Art Foundation broke ground on its first expansion project in 30 years, led by Boston-based Annum Architects (previously Ann Beha Architects) and Mathison | Mathison Architects, along with owner’s representative Construction Simplified, both of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1912, the Muskegon Museum of Art holds a significant collection of American and European artworks, sculpture and studio glass. The 26,000 SF expansion is driven by a renewed vision for exhibitions programming, collections growth, and community outreach through new exhibition spaces, an outdoor sculpture plaza, museum shop, classrooms, events space, and a roof terrace. Due to generous donations from two of the country’s leading art collectors, the Museum will soon be one of the only museums in the world to have a permanent space dedicated to the work of women artists.

A leader in museum design, Annum has completed award-winning buildings for the Shelburne Museum, the Currier Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a Welcome Center for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Other recent work includes master plans for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the renovation and expansion Mattatuck Museum, and renovation of Chicago’s landmark Newberry Library.

ABA/Annum’s design for the Mukegon Museum of Art includes a 26,000 SF expansion featuring new exhibition spaces, an outdoor sculpture plaza, museum shop, classrooms, events space, and a roof terrace. Thanks to generous donations from two of the country’s leading art collectors, the Museum will soon be one of the only museums in the world to have a permanent space dedicated to the work of women artists!

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We had the pleasure of working with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on the Dutch & Flemish Art Galleries and the Center for Netherlandish Art. We’re thrilled to see the works of Michaelina Wautier, a long-overlooked 17th-century woman artist, featured in one of the newly renovated gallery spaces and covered in The New York Times.

We’re excited to see the MFA getting national recognition for their ongoing initiative to highlight this important era in art history, and to have supported them in doing so.

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