Profile

Barbara Suit Janssen

Associate Curator
Division of Home and Community Life

B.S. University of Maryland (1972)

Research Specialties 

19th Century American patent models, sewing machines, trade literature and textile machinery.

Projects 

Current Projects:

  • Finder's Guide to NMAH's Patent Model Collection

Past Projects:

Curated the following exhibitions

  • America's Clothespins
  • Patent Pending: Models of Invention
  • American Invention (the Museum's first traveling exhibition to seven cities in Japan)
  • Icons of Invention: American Patent Models (NPG)
  • Industrial Design: An American Case History (Evolution of Singer Sewing Machine Design)
Professional Affiliations 
  • American Association of Museums
  • American Association of State and Local History
  • Society of the History of Technology