Polina Smutko cleans a favorite miniature house from the Nineteenth-Century American Town set. Now director of collections, Smutko was offered a temporary job in 1988 to clean the Girard Wing. “I jumped at the chance. Not at the five dollars an hour, but to be intimately engaged in Alexander Girard’s wonderland.” This is Smutko’s third Girard Wing refresh project. She’s excited about the progress toward digitally documenting the objects and sets. “This will allow us to share Girard’s playfulness, ingenuity and sense of wonder with the rest of the world.”