Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens preserves and interprets the life story of Marjorie Merriweather Post, her world renowned collections of French and imperial Russian fine and decorative arts, and her artistically landscaped estate and botanical collections.

Today, Hillwood presents a way of living that has nearly vanished.  It is the only public site in the District of Columbia of a noted collector, philanthropist, and socialite’s home and estate—where presidents, heads of states, ambassadors, politicians, and dignitaries were formally entertained in the mid-twentieth century.  Further, it is a premier American example of an “art collector’s personal museum,” preserved intact for posterity.
 
Hillwood continues Marjorie Post’s legacy by sharing the contributions she made in the fields of American business leadership; women’s studies; diplomacy; progressive thought; political history; philanthropy; American material culture; community and social involvement; healthy lifestyles; Russian imperial art; French decorative arts; costume, jewelry and textile design and estate and garden design.  Hillwood is an important scholarly voice on Russian and Western European decorative arts and twentieth-century American material culture.