Art Museum
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
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DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum is an art museum in Williamsburg, United States.
About DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (DWDAM), is a museum dedicated to British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, located in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Situated just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg, DWDAM was founded with an initial 1982 donation by DeWitt Wallace (1889–1981) and his wife Lila Bell Acheson Wallace (1889–1984) — co-founders of Reader's Digest.
The Wallaces donated $12 million to finance reconstruction of the nation's first public mental hospital – the 1773 Public Hospital – and construction of the decorative arts museum — to be connected to the hospital by an underground concourse.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum by the numbers
- Founded
- 1985
Plan your visit
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
- Website
- www.colonialwilliamsburg.com
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