Film and Exhibitions
At the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center
Introductory Film
Thomas Jefferson's World, Monticello's visually rich introductory film, describes Monticello's central importance to Jefferson's life and work and will emphasize Jefferson's consequential accomplishments and his core ideas about human liberty—the world-changing ideas—that reach from his place and time in history to the present day. Airs continually throughout the day, year round.
Exhibitions
Thomas Jefferson and the Boisterous 'Sea of Liberty' illustrates the development and ongoing influence of Jefferson's core ideas about liberty on a wall of 21 flat-panel LCD screens, including seven interactive touch screens. - Monticello as Experiment: 'To Try All Things' explores Jefferson's use of Monticello as a laboratory for his belief that "useful knowledge" could make life more efficient and convenient and lead to the progress of the nation.
- Making Monticello: Jefferson's 'Essay in Architecture' showcases the architectural origins, construction, and four-decade evolution of the Monticello house, widely regarded as one of the icons of American architecture.
- The Words of Thomas Jefferson brings Jefferson's ideas to light through projection in an innovative display.
Geared toward Monticello's younger visitors, the Griffin Discovery Room offers a variety of hands-on, interactive ways for young people to connect with Thomas Jefferson and the members of the larger Monticello community.
At the House
Crossroads
Domestic work in the Monticello house is the focus of "Crossroads," a new exhibition installed in the house's central cellar, adjacent to the Wine Cellar and directly beneath the Entrance Hall. Life-sized figures, archaeologically recovered objects, and interactive models of the wine dumbwaiter, "servant's" bell, and storehouse locks, give a sense of the constant interaction and activity required to keep Monticello running.
Mountaintop Hands-on Activity Center
Write with a quill pen; play 18th century games; and enjoy many more fun, family-oriented hands-on activities.
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