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Rubenstein Visitor Center English and Carl and Hunter Smith Education Center DISCOVER THE ROBERT H. AND WORLD CLARICE SMITH GUIDE FOR Visit the exhibitions WOODLAND PAVILION in the ROBERT H. AND OF JEFFERSON VISITORS CHARLOTTESVILLE CLARICE SMITH GALLERY VISITOR INFO TheCAFÉ menu includes WALKING TRAIL TO KIOSK (see list below). JEFFERSON’S GRAVE sandwiches, salads, (15 minutes) pastries, child-friendly & MONTICELLO options, and hot and (25 minutes total) cold drinks. SHUTTLE BUS TO MONTICELLO MONTICELLO (10 minutes) PLANTATION MODEL ELEVATOR Visit THE SHOP at Monticello Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), theorist of the American Revolution, for a large selection of books drafted the Declaration of Independence. His words, which continue to and Jefferson-related gifts. HOWARD AND ABBY inspire people from around the world, established the foundations of MILSTEIN THEATER GRIFFIN self-government and individual freedom in America: that “all men are (courtyard level) DISCOVERY created equal”. ROOM After writing the Declaration, Jefferson spent the next 33 years in CARL AND public life, serving as delegate to the Virginia General Assembly and to DOMINION HUNTER SMITH WELCOME PAVILION Congress, as governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, EDUCATION CENTER vice president, and president from 1801 to 1809. Notable achievements of Jefferson’s presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ELEVATOR PARKING He believed that human reason and knowledge could improve the condition of mankind. Jefferson studied science and was an GROUP CHECK-IN “enthusiast” of the arts, shaping public architecture in America, and WHEELCHAIR contributing to horticulture, ethnography, paleontology, archeology, Enjoy the 15-minute TO ACCESSIBLE and astronomy, to name but a few. In retirement, he founded and SAUNDERS- introductory film ENTRANCE designed the University of Virginia. MONTICELLO Thomas Jefferson’s TRAIL TO PARKING Jefferson designed every aspect of Monticello, an icon of architecture World in the TheGRIFFIN DISCOVERY ROOM HOWARD AND ABBY and a World Heritage site, constructing and modifying its buildings gives guests, especially children, and landscape over a period of 40 years. Monticello was also a working MILSTEIN THEATER, the chance to learn about plantation – where the paradox of slavery contrasts with the ideals of See the AFRICAN AMERICAN GRAVEYARD, located at located at the Jefferson’s life and times through liberty expressed by Jefferson in the declaration. the foot of the trail that leads from the Visitor Center. courtyard level. hands-on elements and activities, As a result of Jefferson’s assiduous record keeping, and more than 50 including reproductions from the years of scholarly research, Monticello is among the best documented, Monticello house and plantation. best preserved and best studied plantations in North America. Monticello was the center of Jefferson’s world; to understand him, you must experience Monticello, his autobiographical statement. On a little Exhibitions in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Gallery mountain in Charlottesville the power of place merges with the power of Jefferson’s timeless ideas. His home and masterpiece, Monticello, is a touchstone for all who seek to explore the enduring meaning of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson and Monticello as Experiment: ‘the Boisterous Sea of ‘To Try All Things’ explores Liberty’ illustrates the Jefferson’s use of Monticello as development and ongoing a laboratory for his belief that STAY CONNECTED influence of Jefferson’s core “useful knowledge” could make ideas about liberty on a wall life more efficient and convenient. of 21 flat-panel LCD screens, Use Monticello’s free wifi including seven interactive Making Monticello: touch screens. Jefferson’s ‘Essay in Thomas Jefferson’s @TJMonticello Architecture’ showcases the Monticello The Words of Thomas architectural origins, construction, Jefferson brings Jefferson’s and four-decade evolution of the thoughts to light through Monticello house, widely regarded Monticello, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation founded in projection in an innovative as one of the icons of American 1923, receives no ongoing federal or state funds in support of its display. architecture. dual mission of preservation and education. monticello.org Monticello House and Plantation DOME ROOM THE PLANTATION Jefferson divided his plantation into separate farms run by resident SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT overseers who directed the labor of enslaved men, women, and children. Most of Jefferson’s slaves CLOSET came to him by inheritance. For PARLOR BEDROOM most of his life he was the owner TEA ROOM DINING ROOM Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully, 1856 PARLOR JEFFERSON’S of about 200 enslaved people, two- CHAMBER thirds of them at Monticello and THE HOUSE Jefferson’s family and their guests NORTH SOUTH PIAZZA PIAZZA one-third at Poplar Forest. Tobacco gathered to converse, read, and play (GREENHOUSE) was his main cash crop but he If you had visited Monticello in games and musical instruments in CABINET switched to wheat in the 1790s. Jefferson’s time, you would have the parlor with its elegant parquet been greeted in this grand two-story floor. The room contained furniture room by Burwell Colbert, Jefferson’s that Jefferson acquired in France as enslaved butler, or by one of the well as pieces made in the joinery STORAGE enslaved houseboys. The Great Clock STORAGE at Monticello. The walls featured CELLAR WINE CELLAR WARE ROOM BEER CELLAR CELLAR above the doorway displays the time as portraits of notable philosophers, well as the day of the week. statesmen, navigators and explorers of the New World. Jefferson also hung paintings of biblical subjects with MULBERRY ROW strong visual impact. Learn about domestic work at Monticello through the CROSSROADS exhibition underneath the house. Named for the mulberry trees planted STOREHOUSE FOR IRON NORTH OCTAGONAL ROOM along it, Mulberry Row was the center of plantation activity at Monticello from the 1770s until Jefferson’s death Built around 1793, this log structure Frequent occupants of this semi- in 1826. Enslaved, free, and indentured was recently reconstructed based octagonal bedroom were the fourth workers and craftsmen lived and on archaeological and documentary president of the United States, James worked along Mulberry Row which evidence. Jefferson referred to Madison, and his celebrated wife, changed over time to accomodate it as a “storehouse for nailrod & Dolley. Madison was Jefferson’s close Thomas Jefferson’s polygraph the varying needs of Monticello’s other iron,” but it was also a site friend and important ally; his estate, Courtesy of the University of Vrginia construction and Jefferson’s household for tinsmithing, nailmaking, and Montpelier, is about 30 miles—about a and manufacturing initiatives. domestic life. day’s travel then—from Monticello. DINING ROOM STUDY AND BEDCHAMBER Changing over time as structures AND TEA ROOM were built, removed, or repurposed, Every day, Jefferson spent time reading Mulberry Row had more than 25 and writing in his cabinet, or study. BOOK ROOM THE UPSTAIRS The Jefferson family and their workshops, dwellings, and storage HALL His desk holds a polygraph, a copying guests ate two main meals a day: buildings for weavers, spinners, machine with two pens. When Jefferson kept his library of 6,700 Occupied primarily by Jefferson’s breakfast was served around 8 in blacksmiths, tinsmiths, nailmakers, Jefferson displayed Native American Jefferson wrote with one pen, the books in this room in his private daughter, sister and grandchildren, DOME ROOM the morning and dinner at about 4 carpenters, sawyers, charcoal burners, objects given as diplomatic gifts to other made an exact copy. Jefferson apartment, or suite.
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