The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center
Pennsylvania, USA
The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center is the permanent home of The Museum of Modern Art’s film collection, one of the finest collections in the world. The facility, located in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, dramatically expanded the Museum’s Department of Film and Video’s storage capability and provided a state-of-the-art, controlled environment. The 37,500 square foot facility is a complex made up of two independent buildings.
The first is designed as a two-story building enclosed within a building. This provides the temperature- and humidity-controlled film vaults with the buffer of a larger envelope and also allows for environmental stabilization of the collection that is mechanically efficient and cost effective. In addition, this main building contains the Center’s inspection and preservation laboratories, administrative and conference facilities, and storage for the non-film components of the collection (printed works, posters, and film-related memorabilia).
The second, smaller building houses an extremely fragile nitrate film collection. It is comprised of 32 discrete, explosion-proof vaults, each equipped with independent temperature, humidity, and fire-suppression systems. The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center was conceived as a compound. Located on a 38-acre pastoral site, the cloister like environment reflects the artistic and scholarly aspects of the Center’s mission.
Awards:
- Concrete Industry Board, Roger H. Corbetta Annual Award, 1997
- AIA New York State Excellence in Design Award, 1996
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