Paula Bradstreet Richter, Curator

Since 2009, Paula Richter has been responsible for curatorial research and support of the museum's changing exhibition program, related publications and core activities within the curatorial department. She has participated on exhibition teams for more than a dozen recent and upcoming exhibitions and numerous gallery installations and rotations.

Richter curated or co-curated The Salem Witch Trials 1692; The Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice; Made It: Women Who Revolutionized Fashion; Salem Stories; The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming; Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel; and Wedded Bliss, the Marriage of Art and Ceremony, among others.

She previously worked for the Cape Ann Historical Association, the Sargent House Museum and Landmark College. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Richter writes and lectures on American textiles and fashion and New England art and decorative arts.