Amanda Keller

Amanda Keller is the newly appointed Executive Director for the National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia (NSCDA-VA) and Wilton House Museum. In
Keller’s previous role, she served as Curator of Historic Interiors & Household Accessories at the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where she researched and designed furnishing plans for
specialized interpretations throughout the exhibition buildings in the historic area. During her 16
year tenure at the foundation, she curated exhibitions such as Making Music in Early America at
the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and created temporary displays that help bring the
interiors to life such as the Washington headquarters installation at the George Wythe House, the
Frances Horrocks funeral in the Everard House, the Henry Wetherburn’s subscription ball of
1752, and the Martha Everard and Dr. Isaac Hall 1774 wedding.
Keller received her M.A. in Early American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program at the
University of Delaware and her B.A. from Hartwick College in History and Art History. This past
year at Wilton House Museum, Keller has furnished the Wilton Parlor as Lafayette Headquarters
portraying Lafayette’s time at Wilton for two weeks in May 1781 and a brand-new exhibition in
upper passage gallery, The Women Who Saved Wilton: How a Colonial Plantation House Moved
to Richmond’s West End which explores the long legacy of the Virginia Society Dames with
historic preservation and saving old buildings.