Wonderful Women Wednesday: Polly Willman

Polly Willman, Conservator of Costumes, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1988–99, supervised staff and treated costume and textile objects for the museum’s major exhibitions, including for the redesign of the First Ladies Hall. #Groundbreaker 
May 13, 2020, by Emily Niekrasz

A woman in the forefront vacuums a costume. Another woman stands in the background.

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