Tour
Behind the Scenes Tour
Explore the first floor of Monticello and the private quarters on the second and third floors.
Private Guide
The ultimate insider experience
- Cost $1500 for up to 4 people (and $150 for each additional guest)
Now you can discover Monticello with the ultimate insider’s experience. Enjoy an intimate group setting and explore Jefferson’s mountaintop home during your own personal tour tailored exclusively to your interests.
Your Monticello guide will greet you at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center and lead you on a three-hour private tour, which includes a tour of the house, the third floor Dome Room, Monticello’s beautiful gardens and grounds or the museum galleries.
Your Monticello Private Guide tour includes:
- An experienced Monticello guide who will tailor the tour to your interests
- A private tour of Monticello for you and your guests
- A visit to Jefferson’s rarely seen Dome Room
- A guided tour of the gardens, grounds, or museum galleries
- A Monticello Family Membership to enjoy membership benefits for the coming year
You'll have access to: | |
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| -Free Parking | -The Shop at Monticello |
| -Free Wifi and Monticello Mobile Guide | -The Farm Shop on the Mountaintop |
| -Gardens and Grounds | -The Monticello Café |
Also included with your ticket
Monticello Membership Program
Monticello is a nonprofit that depends on the support of visitors like you. Commemorate America's 250th with a Monticello Membership and enjoy year-round access, exclusive perks, and member-only benefits. Includes a free standard-rate house tour every time you visit!
Additional Tours
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![A young girl and boy look up as they go upstairs during a Behind-the-scenes tour of Monticello.]()
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![A multi-generational family of five looks up as guide points to a wall in Monticello's Entrance Hall that is covered with natural history specimens and maps.]()
TourHighlights Tour
Our most popular tour. Explore Thomas Jefferson’s life, Monticello’s iconic architecture, and slavery on the plantation. Includes first floor rooms and outdoor spaces.
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![The names of people enslaved at Monticello cut into spaces in a corten steel wall so that they stand out from the light behind them.]()
TourFrom Slavery to Freedom
This guided, small-group tour focuses on Monticello's enslaved community and discusses the enduring legacies of slavery and freedom.
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![Closeup of the bodies of two men in late 18th-century clothing, both pointing at a newspaper one of them is holding.]()
TourFounding Friends, Founding Foes Tour
This tour of Monticello reveals how Jefferson and Adams became allies in revolution, bitter rivals in politics, and friends again in retirement.
