Address: 500 10th Street NW
Pricing: Free, $3 donation suggested
Phone: (404) 894-7840
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Saturday/Sunday and Georgia Tech holidays.
How To Get There:
From I-75 South, take exit 252, Northside Drive, turn right/south. Northside Drive about 1.4 miles to Tenth Street. Turn left on Tenth Street. The building is The building at the corner of Tenth Street and Hemphill Avenue.
From I-75/85 northbound, take exit 250/Tenth & Fourteenth Street - Georgia Tech. Turn left, go 3.4 mile. Just after you cross Hemphill Avenue, museum parking will be on your left.
Parking:Free, if spaces full, ask guard to open gate.
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Paper Museum separates pulp facts, pulp fiction
Published: Apr 9, 2009
Paper: we read it, spend it, write on it, carry groceries in it and create with it.
Something this useful and this ubiquitous deserves a closer look. And for that, we've got the Robert C.Williams Paper Museum at Georgia Tech.
The museum's exquisitely designed displays tell the history of paper and paper technology. Visitor learn how humans once wrote on stone, metal, bark, papyrus and other media before the Chinese developed a method of making paper in 105 A.D., or earlier.
The technique spread to Europe, Gutenberg invented his press, and the world has never been the same.
The museum dates to 1939 and was originally called the Dard Hunter Paper Museum — after the Ohio artist who collected books and artifacts for a collection that was housed first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, then later in Appleton, Wisc.
Located in Atlanta since 1993, the museum's displayes include manuscripts, papermaking trays, machinery, artistic watermarks, samples of the different writing surfaces and more. The museum's online virtual tour offers a scrap of the fascinating collection.
Across the hall from the main museum are displays of papermaking tools, artifacts and interactive displays, including a scale model of modern papermaking plant. A wall of stereoscopic viewers shows delightful scenes from early 20th century paper mills.
The museum also has an art gallery featuring a changing display of works made of paper. The Gift Shop sells beautiful Japanese papers and an array of books on origami and papermaking. You can sign up for workshops in various papermaking techniques.
The museum, which is not open on weekends, is housed in a Georgia Tech building. Visitors must register at the front desk with the guard who can open the nearby locked parking gate if the six parking spaces out front are full.
- by Diane Loupe, Atlanta Reporter for HelloMetro
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