Snapshot: Linda Endersby, making history accessible to the public

Missouri State Museum director Linda Endersby catalogs one of the 5,000 stereoscope images in a collection at the museum in Jefferson City.

Missouri State Museum director Linda Endersby catalogs one of the 5,000 stereoscope images in a collection at the museum in Jefferson City. Photo by Stephen Brooks.

By Michelle Brooks

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Coming from the elite academic world of MIT and Harvard, Linda Endersby said she made a conscious choice to work in the handson realm of museums.

“I didn’t come here by a direct route,” the acting director of the Missouri State Museum said.

With a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science and a master’s in Medieval Russian history, Endersby combined the two interests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a doctorate in the history of science and technology.

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