Williams College, the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts after Harvard University, has been home to a prestigious art museum on its bucolic Williamstown campus in the northern Berkshires since 1926. Throughout its entire history, however, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has existed as somewhat of an interloper, populating an octagonal red-brick edifice originally built in 1846 as the college’s library and subsequently expanded and redesigned multiple times in the following decades—including a 1980s overhaul by Charles Moore—to accommodate the museum and its growing collection, which now stands at more than 15,000 works.
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