Shannon Crane and Katya Lebedev have been working as interns in the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.
"As an intern at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum I have felt really involved in the museum. I have been able to work with the gift shop, assist with tours, and help plan the temporary exhibit opening this month. The experience I have gained from this past semester is invaluable and the skills I have learned will continue to be useful to me." -- Shannon Crane
"As a liberal arts student at Georgia Tech, the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum has offered me the unique experience of integrating my love of history and culture with technology. This semester, while working as an intern at the museum, I am also enrolled in the Museum Studies course under the History, Technology, and Society department of the Ivan Allen College. I have been having the fortuitous experience of integrating my experience working with the vast artifact and book collection both as an employee, a visitor, and a member of the curatorial team for the upcoming exhibit. My class has decided to share with the public an exhibition presenting what we consider to be fascinating details about the travels of renowned paper expert Dard Hunter. Hunter's large accumulation of paper related artifacts, much of which was developed during his world travels in the first half of the twentieth century, has been integral to the museum's permanent collection; however, there are just as many objects and stories from his lifetime dedication to the development of the paper craft which have yet to be publicly displayed. Being a lifetime book lover, having access to Dard Hunter's rich personal book collection, made up of his own publications as well as many relevant finds, has been indispensible in learning how Hunter's experiences shaped him as a person and how he went on to expose and shape the long history of human papermaking. My favorite moments in the museum have been those in which I realize the importance of the objects he built the original museum to preserve. I had no idea when I committed myself to the museum that I would learn about a craft that has shaped the entire history of mankind, nor that I would discover the exceptional character that was Dard Hunter." -- Katya Lebedev
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