Facilities

Opened in 1982 as the first building in the world constructed specifically to preserve an audio collection, the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive is two facilities in one. The archive includes the collections, a classroom, and the reference room. The Laboratory comprises a recording studio with two control rooms, one of which is used exclusively for sound preservation work.

Construction of the building was funded by Diane and Arthur B. Belfer and the Jon Ben Snow Memorial Trust.