Monticello Press Room

General Foundation News
Monticello's new visitor center earns LEED Gold certification \| November 4, 2009 The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has been awarded LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center at Monticello. The Monticello facility is the first visitor center at a World Heritage site in the United States and one of only five visitor centers in the country to earn LEED Gold certification. More »
Monticello listed among eight must-see places in U.S. \| September 30, 2009 The Web site of Budget Travel magazine has featured Monticello on its list of "8 places every American should see." More »

Tours and Events
Winter operating hours in effect through Dec. 31 \| October 21, 2009 Through Dec. 31, Monticello's operating hours will be 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. More »
1776 copy of Declaration of Independence on display today at Monticello \| October 14, 2009 The only touring copy of the Declaration of Independence that dates to July 4, 1776, will be on view at the home of the document’s author on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The printed copy of the Declaration – a “broadside” sheet printed in Philadelphia only hours after Thomas Jefferson’s final draft was adopted by the Second Continental Congress – will be displayed at Monticello’s Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The viewing in the visitor center’s Theater will be open to the public free of charge. More »

Research and Education
'A Passion for Nature' is latest volume on Jefferson \| February 10, 2009 Thomas Jefferson’s deep interest in the natural world – from the flora and fauna of Albemarle County to the exotic specimens gathered by Lewis and Clark on their trek to the Pacific – is the subject of A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History by Keith Thomson, the 15th title in the Monticello Monograph Series published by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. More »
Three teachers from U.S., one from England are awarded Barringer Fellowships \| June 2, 2008 Teachers from Virginia, Oregon, Louisiana, and England have been awarded the 2008 Barringer Research Fellowships for Teachers of American History by Monticello’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. More »