The Woodford community is set usher in a new era of creativity, while keeping one eye on its past, when the town’s revamped cultural hub is officially opened later this month.

Upgrades made by Moreton Bay Regional Council to the existing Woodford Memorial Community Centre has given the town’s art enthusiasts and history buffs a new home at the Archer Street facility, completed earlier this year.

Council removed more than 380 tonnes of rubble from the previously unusable basement hall to create around 450 square metres of public space, now home to the Woodford Historical Society and the Woodford Community Art Group.

Workers also built a link between the hall and the adjacent library building, to create a community hub focused on arts, culture and heritage.

Moreton Bay Region councillor Adrian Raedel (Division 12) hoped the new infrastructure would become a cultural focal point for Woodford and would develop the town as an emerging cultural tourist destination.

"The development of this space has the potential to attract economic development to Woodford through nurturing creative industries with potential spin-offs for local business," Cr Raedel said.

"Not only will it help develop creative industry in the region, but it allows us to celebrate the rich vein of Woodford’s pioneering history."

Cr Raedel said the community museum and artspace, created at a cost of $670,000, had been welcomed by its tenants.

"Until now the historical society and local artists have had to store their work and materials in private homes, using the existing hall for exhibitions and meetings as required," he said.

Woodford Community Art Group Vice President Bobby Winkel, from Stanmore, said the group had been searching for a permanent home since being founded in the early-1990s.

Past President and D’Aguilar resident Leone Gray said the group, which will host its seventh Biennial Art Awards Exhibition at the hall in October, was "very excited" about having its own art space.

"We’re all very excited about it, it’s wonderful, just an amazing thing to have," she said.

Woodford Historical Society President Ron Trim said having a fixed address would help the organisation’s numbers grow from its current membership of 30 people.

"When you haven’t got a home people tend to lose interest, but now we’re getting quite a lot of volunteers willing to help with the running of the facility," the Neurum resident said.

Art and history exhibitions will feature at the opening of the facility on 18 May, which coincides with International Museum Day.

Established by the Paris-based International Council of Museums, International Museum Day has been celebrated all over the world since 1978.

Around 20,000 museums in more than 70 countries taking place in International Museum Day each year, with the theme for this year’s global event being "museums and tourism".