The Beck Cultural Exchange Center seemed to be easily one of the busiest places we visited. It's main focus seemed to be being a place the community could use, not only as a museum and library, but also a focus for community activity. The staff was incredibly warm and welcoming.
The room that seemed the most traditionally 'museum' was the upstairs room dedicated to William Hastie. Though it was still a work in progress, it was shaping up to be a space most museums would be proud of. The rest of the collections besides the library seem to hark back what many history museums started as, small collections in house. This 'house' just happens to be bigger.
I think what they are doing with the Beck Center, making it more part of the community, being in the community rather than just located there, is something that other small museums might want to look at as a model where to go if funding for museums continues to be so hard to get.
Their website is nice, however, it is obvious that it likely was built with a template.
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