Stephanie Cyr joined the Worcester Art Museum as Museum
Librarian on November 28, 2017. In this
capacity, Stephanie also serves as the Art Museum Librarian for the College of
the Holy Cross.
Most recently, Stephanie served as the Associate Curator at
the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, where she
planned and executed exhibitions. Her
work focused on varied topics from weather and climate, geology, mining, and
current subjects such as hydraulic fracturing, to maps of fantastic and
imaginary lands in fiction. During her
career as a librarian, Stephanie has worked in reference and readers advisory
and cataloging, and brings over a decade of experience in public, academic and
special library settings to the Worcester Art Museum library. Stephanie looks
forward to working with all visitors to the Museum, and welcomes neighbors,
guests and students of all ages to learn about and utilize the vast resources
that the library has to offer. Browse dozens of art magazines, read about
current exhibitions, or conduct personal research in the reading room, which is
open to the public.
Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from
UMass Amherst, and a master’s degree in library science from Simmons College in
Boston. Her favorite book is Emily Brontë’s Wuthering
Heights, and her favorite work of art is Thomas Cole’s View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow (1836). She lives in central Massachusetts with
her husband and two young children.
We're delighted that Stephanie has joined WAM! Please stop by the library to meet her when you are next at the Museum.
--Gareth Salway, Director of Museum Services and Chief Registrar