Springfield Museums (Springfield Science Museum)

The Springfield Museums will stabilize and restore twenty Tiffany stained glass windows that are original to the main facade of the historic George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum which opened in 1896. The windows have deteriorated because of age, city pollution, the harsh New England weather and a poor restoration in the 1970s. The goals of the project are to stabilize the windows and to restore them, as closely as possible, to their original appearance and condition, using appropriate conservation techniques and materials. The project includes a provision to protect the windows and their restoration through the addition of exterior tempered glass. The restoration of the Tiffany stained glass windows will reintegrate important decorative features with the building as well as greatly increase the efficiency of the windows increasing the effectiveness of the museum environmental control system.