Join us as Monticello’s Archaeology Department hosts its annual open house, featuring displays, exhibits on recent discoveries in the field and the lab, engaging activities for all ages, and walking tours of the vanished Monticello Plantation landscape. Archaeology staff members will be on hand to answer questions. Displays and exhibits are found in the Visitors’ Center courtyard outside of the Café.
Visitors can also take a ticketed walking tour with one of our archaeologists. This year’s tour will visit Site 30, an archaeological dig that is revealing important information about enslaved agricultural laborers at Monticello as well as the precolonial activities of Indigenous communities on this landscape.
Displays and activities in the visitor center courtyard and galleries are free to anyone in attendance. To join a walking tour and explore the mountaintop, ticket purchase is required. Visit our Archaeology Walk and House Tours page for more information: https://bit.ly/3OLggn4. Tours leave from the Bronze Plantation Model in the Visitors Center at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.
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