Susannah Carroll
Susannah Carroll
Susannah Carroll maintains stewardship of the museum’s 3-D objects, prints, photographs, and drawings, archives, Library, and Audio/Visual collections. She has worked with the museum’s collections since 2005, presenting research at various museum conferences, supporting the Institute on traveling exhibitions with management of artifacts from Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and China, and exploring the Institute’s collections with museum guests. Susannah holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Museum Studies, and worked in historical houses in Germantown before coming to the Institute. Her favorite activities include wandering the Institute’s collections storage areas, curling up with a book and her cats, and visiting museums around the world.
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Celebrate Love with a Cup of Tea!
Our Curatorial Staff agree, Franklin's Tea Set (FI Catalog # 4001) is a favorite, not only for its beauty, but for its story.
This porcelain tea set includes six cups and saucers, which fit perfectly into the velvet lined sections of a wooden box. Hand-painted gilded leaves and flower clusters circle the pottery, and the handles of the cups resemble two curved stems with leaves.