Stone Hill Center

The Williamstown Art Conservation Center is housed in the Stone Hill Center, on the campus of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Designed by internationally renowned architect Tadao Ando, WACC at Stone Hill is a unique facility for art conservation, offering state-of-the-art laboratories housed within world-class architecture.
   The new building, which WACC occupied in June, 2008, more than doubles the Center’s available space to 20,000 square feet. The Stone Hill facility was designed to meet the needs of 21st-century conservation. It offers spacious labs flooded with natural light, each built to meet the needs of its specific discipline.
   Additional facilities include an analytical laboratory, examination room, classroom and photo-imaging studio, as well as an X-ray room with 360-kilovolt capacity, sufficient to generate core images of marble and bronze. Stone Hill Center also houses two Clark exhibition galleries and features sweeping vistas of the Berkshires and Green Mountains; visitors are invited to experience the conservation process via a viewing platform and large windows that look in on the labs.