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Experience Monticello

Enjoy time with your family at Monticello

Admission Offer

Save $5 on Adult Highlights Tour Tickets

Nov 4 through Dec 31, save $5 on Highlights Tour Adult Tickets with promo code LAFAYETTE200 at checkout.

A marble mantle at Monticello decorated with natural, colonial-style Christmas greenery

December 13 - 23; 26 - 30

Holiday Evening Tours

Join us for the rare opportunity to experience Monticello after dark, decorated with the style of holiday greenery found during Jefferson’s era.

On Display

Declaration of Independence

See a rare engraving of the Declaration and learn more about how it went from the tip of Jefferson's quill to an international icon of democracy.

What's Happening

Step into the fascinating and complex world of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home and plantation.

Natural holiday decorations on the mantle in Monticello's Parlor

December

Get Ready for the Holidays at Monticello

From wreath-making workshops to our evening tours of Monticello, we have a variety of stories and traditions to share as we celebrate the 2024 holiday season.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jefferson

Get to know Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia.

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The House and Gardens

Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.

Slavery at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson enslaved over six hundred people throughout his life. Learn about the men, women, and children who lived and labored on this plantation.

ADDRESS:
931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 22902
GENERAL INFORMATION:
(434) 984-9800