She is known for her work on textiles and used buildings to describe life in past eras.
[2] She has an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University and a master's degree in early American history from the University of Delaware.
[3] She then moved to Winterthur Museum where she was the first woman student,[4] and she led a program that used houses to describe past eras.
[2] She was the director of the Strawbery Banke Museum from 1986 until 1992,[5] and while there she led an exhibition pairing a house viewed as if in 1950 with a 1795 household.
[6] At the Old Sturbridge Village Nylander was the curator of textiles and ceramics.