Karen Louvar

Karen Louvar started her museum career in 2005 as an intern at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park within the Curatorial and Education departments. She became a Museum Technician for the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt & Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Sites in New York, and Director of Riverview at Hobson Grove, a Victorian era house museum in Kentucky.

After six years as the Collections Manager of Stratford Hall in Virginia, the boyhood home of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and one of four places in the world with Miocene paleontology, Louvar returned to her home state of WV. She earned her BA in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky, and her MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of Louisville.