M. Goodwin Associates worked with Eskew + Dumez + Ripple and the Museum Director, supporters and Senior University Administration to develop a site analysis, building program, and long-term expansion plan for this new museum. The Museum occupies an unusual site in that it incorporates an historic building, set amidst towering native oaks. The beauty of the site was a constant impetus in our work to create a facility of elegance, contemporaneity and lightness that would do justice to its context.