Weston Rotunda, Architect Thomas S. Tefft
The museum is distinguished architecturally by the neoclassical rotunda of the original structure, an 1846 two-story brick octagon designed by Thomas S. Tefft as the college's first library. The structure was expanded dramatically by extensive additions in 1983 and 1986 designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Moore. His dramatic three-story entrance atrium connects the original building with the four story addition and links the College's Department of Art and an auditorium on the lower floor with the museum's fourteen galleries above.
Atrium, Architect Charles Moore
The museum's collection, exhibitions, and building make it possible for students to benefit from first-hand knowledge of works of art. The Museum works with faculty from many disciplines to enhance the college curriculum. The Prendergast Archive and Study Center at WCMA, founded in 1990, is a resource for American modernists Maurice and Charles Prendergast and their contemporaries.
