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Permanent exhibition, restoration completed Sept. 17, 2008. 2,650 acres. Michael Quinn, executive director; Lynn Hastings, vice president for museum programs; Tom Chapman, research coordinator; Allison Deeds, director of curatorial operations; Sean T. O'Brien, executive director, Center for the Constitution; Matthew Reeves, director of the Archaeology Department. Montpelier, the lifelong home of President James Madison, sits on 2,650 acres of pasture, gardens, woods, and numerous outbuildings with magnificent views of the Blue Ridge Mountains in rural Orange, Virginia. The site is complex, incorporating elements of the American story that span hundreds of years. That story is told through a variety of mechanisms. The Visitor Center presents a film about James and Dolley Madison, setting the context for a guided tour of the newly “restored” house. The center also has disparate galleries—one honoring the years of the duPont ownership and one displaying random personal or household artifacts. An archaeology lab and the...

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