MUSEUMS SHOWCASE FUNCTIONALISM OF BUILDINGS THREE LOCAL INSTITUTIONS MAKE STATEMENTS THROUGH THEIR ARCHITECTURE

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 1, 1990| Author: Sandy Coleman, Globe Staff | Copyright information
Museum.

Quick, what's the first image that pops into your head? Likely, you're seeing a huge, musty, prison-like building that is about as exciting as a mausoleum, right?

If you have been to Brockton, Duxbury or Hull, however, you are picturing something else. Museums there leave a different impression.

The Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton is an open, angular building quietly tucked into its wooded surroundings, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury gently mimicks the rol...