The Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library, a world-class laboratory for the conservation of works on paper—drawings and literary, historical, and music manuscripts—as well as a place for conservation studies, opened in February 2002.

Occupying the entire 5,600-square-foot fourth floor of the historic Morgan House, the Thaw Center more than doubles the size of the previous conservation facilities and includes designated areas for wet and dry conservation work, matting and framing, advanced seminars, graduate internships, and postgraduate fellowships. It provides the safest environment for the care of objects as well as for the conservators who handle them. The advanced lighting, ventilation, communications, climate control, and other technical equipment affordsbroader investigation, treatment, and training opportunities. Acoustic Dimensions collaborated in the design of specialty ventilation and finish system to ensure a quiet work environment.