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In 1993, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation commemorated the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth with a catalog and loan exhibition, "The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello." More than 150 objects and works of art once belonging to Jefferson returned to Monticello, and many of those items remain on exhibit.
The Shops at Monticello. Stop by one of our Shops for snacks, beverage, books or one-a-kinds gifts and mementos of your visit. Monticello's museum shops and café, where visitors can buy gifts, souvenirs, snacks, sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, soda, water, beer, wine, and cider.
Jefferson’s adult daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph used this room as a sitting room and a place to manage the work of enslaved domestic servants. Martha and her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph, had 12 children, many of whom lived at Monticello during Jefferson’s retirement years. Enslaved families also lived at Monticello.
Monticello Garden Explorer. A GIS database of the trees, woody shrubs and perennial plants at Monticello. Monticello's gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Monticello's gardens served as a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental ...
Find out about the 5,000-acre Monticello plantation that was home to both the Jefferson family and an extended community of workers that some years included up to 130 enslaved individuals. People Enslaved at Monticello
Explore Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in this stunning 360-degree virtual tour produced by HULLFILM.
The first Monticello was a two-story, eight-room house that revealed his knowledge of classical architecture. In 1796, inspired by neoclassical buildings he had seen while serving as American minister to France, Jefferson began transforming Monticello into a three-story, 21-room brick structure. Inside and out, Jefferson’s free and enslaved ...
