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Griffin Discovery Room
 A child-friendly version of Jefferson's Polygraph copying machine (above) will be featured in the Griffin Discovery Room. Image courtesy the University of Virginia. |
The Griffin Discovery Room will offer numerous ways for visitors – especially young ones – to literally get in touch with Thomas Jefferson and various aspects of life at Monticello. Children and their families will be able to write on a polygraph machine based on the one Jefferson owned, try on replicas of 18th-century clothes, learn how to weave, wield a facsimile blacksmith’s hammer, touch a mastodon’s jaw, play games from Jefferson’s era, and engage in other fun, self-directed educational activities.
Curator: Robin Gabriel, Hunter J. Smith Director of Education, Monticello
Exhibition design: Metcalfe Architecture and Design, Philadelphia, Pa.
Opening April 2009
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