Visitors at Monticello listen to a docent

Visitors to Thomas Jefferson's home will be treated to the idea that Jefferson was a firm believer in “useful knowledge” which could make life more efficient and convenient, and he used Monticello as a laboratory for that theory.
Monticello as Experiment: To Try All Things presents the Monticello house and plantation as the testing ground for Jefferson’s ideas on improving various aspects of life through the application of social, intellectual, economic, and technological advances.