Exploring Monticello Booklet
Before your visit, download, read, and bring along "Exploring Monticello: A Guide for Young Learners" (pdf).
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| Adults |
$29 Online ($33 at Ticket Office)
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| Children 12 - 18 |
$10
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| Children under 12 |
Free
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Clock weights that go into the floor, Mastodon bones, double-acting doors...there are lot of things at Monticello that kids find fascinating. These special guided 40-minute tours of Thomas Jefferson's house are designed for families with children ages 5 to 11. Featuring hands-on learning, these tours highlight Jefferson’s ideas and accomplishments and share stories of the people, both free and enslaved, who lived on this working plantation.
Guide To Your Visit
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The Family Friendly Day Pass features a 1st-floor tour of Monticello that focuses on the interests of young learners and their families.
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Monticello is a big, beautiful, thought-provoking place. Leave time to explore it. Most guests spend about 3.5 hours.
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A visit starts at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center where you'll find exhibits on Jefferson and Monticello, an introductory film, a hands-on discovery room, and food and shopping.
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Visit the Griffin Discovery Room in the visitor center with your kids and look for the seasonal Mountaintop Activity Center next to the House's North Wing.
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Our visually-rich introductory film, “Thomas Jefferson’s World,” describes Monticello’s central importance to Jefferson’s life and work, his consequential accomplishments and core ideas about human liberty, and explores Jefferson’s paradox as a slave owner.
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Look for the seasonal Mountaintop Hands-on Activity Center where you can write with a quill pen, play 18th-century games, look through a camera obscura, build models and enjoy many more fun, hands-on activities designed for children of all ages.
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Explore the Wings of the House, including Monticello’s kitchens, cellars, and slave dwellings. Here you find a recreation of Jefferson's riding vehicle and an exhibit on travel during his time.
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Explore Mulberry Row, where many enslaved individuals lived and worked, or take a guided Slavery at Monticello Tour (included with admission).
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Enjoy Monticello's gardens on your own, or take one of our seasonal, guided Gardens and Grounds Tours (included with admission).
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Visit Jefferson's gravestone at the Monticello Cemetery.
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Visit the African American Burial Ground, a final resting place for more than forty of Monticello’s enslaved community. Jefferson enslaved more than four hundred African Americans at Monticello.
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Look for one-of-a-kind gifts at our Shops. The main Shop is in our visitor center, and there's a Farm Shop in the House's North Wing.
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Refuel at the Monticello Farm Table café at our visitor center.
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With native hardwood forest, deep ravines, elevated walks and spectacular views the Saunders-Monticello Trail is Central Virginia's most popular park.
What's Included in the Family Friendly Day Pass
Tours and Exhibitions
- Family-friendly Tour of Monticello's First Floor
- Meet Thomas Jefferson (most Tuesdays—Saturdays)
- Griffin Discovery Room and other exhibits at the Visitor Center
- Seasonal Mountaintop Activity Center and other exhibits at the House
- Guided Gardens and Grounds Tours (April—October)
- Guided Slavery at Monticello Tours (offered daily)
