The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, has a strong core collection and interesting special exhibits on a rotating basis. I am lucky enough to teach down the road from the museum, so at some point, I may take my students to see the permanent collection, but their main online exhibit concerns Washi and th history of papermaking in Asia, especially in Japan. The museum’s web site has several visual resources for teachers and students, as well as a set of information and activity lessons in papermaking, art, and science, each of which can be downloaded in pdf format.
I plan to use some of the lessons with my own students, but when I have them choose and research their own topics in the spring of the school year, I will also encourage Japanese papermaking as a choice and the museum as a source of facts and ideas. They have an active education program, which a teacher anywhere in the world could access for more possibilities.
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