Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Paper museum at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States.
The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum is a collection at Georgia Tech in Atlanta holding over 100,000 objects related to paper. The displays include ancient written texts, rare books, prints, hand tools, and the large machines that were once used to make paper.
The collection began in 1939 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Dard Hunter, who pioneered paper research. It later moved to Wisconsin and finally came to Atlanta in 1989, where it became part of the university.
The museum shows how different cultures valued and used paper in their daily lives and work. Visitors can see the many ways people around the world developed their own papermaking methods over centuries.
The museum occupies the Paper Tricentennial Building on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. The George W. Mead Education Center, added in 2005 through a donation from the Mead-Witter Foundation, provides extra exhibition space. Check the museum's own information before travelling, since the sources give no opening hours or admission details.
The museum holds the world's largest collection of paper and paper-related artifacts. Among the special objects are ancient watermarks, historic machines, and handwritten manuscripts that show how people refined papermaking over the centuries.
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