Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton

About Marion E. Wade Center

The Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton is a literary museum and reading room devoted to C.S. Lewis and six authors who influenced his work: J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams. Visitors explore museum exhibits, browse the gardens, and access the Kilby Reading Room, where the center's collections of books, letters, manuscripts, and articles are available for study. The Wade Center hosts regular programming including the Hansen Lectureship, spiritual formation lectures, and events focused on imagination and the arts. The collections house materials by and about all seven authors, offering resources found nowhere else in the world. The center serves readers, scholars, and those interested in British Christian literature and its cultural and spiritual significance.