Happening at Monticello

  • 2023 Festival of the Book: American Inheritance

    Held in the Howard and Abby Milstein Theater at Monticello's David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center
    2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
    Talks, Book Signings, Lectures, Conferences,  Special Event

    Join us for this year's Festival of the Book hybrid book talk: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765 - 1795. Pulitzer Prize winning author Ed Larson will grapple with questions about liberty and slavery over the course of the the first thirty years of America's history.

  • Daily Monticello Tours

    Monticello
    All Day
    Tour

    A variety of tours of the house and grounds are available each day, including guided and self-guided options. Most tours are time-specific; find a time and tour that are right for you and reserve your spot today.

  • From Slavery to Freedom Tour

    Monticello
    9:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
    Tour

    This 2.5 hour, guided, small-group, interactive tour explores Monticello through the perspectives of enslaved people who labored on the plantation. Similar tour previously titled the "Hemings Family Tour."