The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, 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 and his wife Lila Bell Acheson Wallace — co-founders of Reader's Digest.
The Wallaces donated $12 million to finance reconstruction of the nation's first public mental hospital, the Public Hospital of 1773 and construction of the decorative arts museum — to be connected to the hospital by an underground concourse. Having initially opened in 1985, the museum has since expanded to include the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and will undergo another expansion to open in 2019 with a new, street-level entrance.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Wallace_Decorative_Arts_Museum
Phone +1 757 229 1000
Address 325 Francis Street, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA
Coordinates 37°16'8.81" N -76°42'16.855" E
