Make Montpelier part of your holiday plans and experience our Holiday Open House & Winter Market. All are invited to this community holiday event on Friday, December 5th from 4-8pm. Explore the Madisons’ home, decorated in 19th-century customs. Open house tours will be from 4PM-7:30PM. Last entry to the House at 7:30 PM.
Visit the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center to enjoy live colonial music from Ampersand, do some holiday shopping in our Winter Market (local food and craft vendors) and Museum Shop, sit back and relax in the theater with holiday selections, and kids can make and take home holiday themed crafts. This event is free for members!
At Montpelier’s Holiday Open House & Winter Market, Dave Borghesani, Chocolate Historian, will lead a hands-on chocolate-making demonstration, showing how chocolate was prepared and enjoyed during James Madison’s era. Guests will see the authentic tools and processes used by historic chocolate makers, from roasting and grinding cocoa nibs on a heated lava metate stone to adding aromatic spices that create chocolate’s distinctive flavor. Visitors can touch, smell, and taste their way through history and enjoy a cup of drinking chocolate – in this case made with AMERICAN HERITAGE Chocolate – just as our Founding Fathers did.
Save time and money by purchasing your tickets online. Online sales will be available until Friday, December 5 at 3:00 PM. $15/Adult (18+), $10/Youth (12-17), $5/Child (5-11), Free/Child 5 and Under.
You can purchase tickets on-site for $20/Adult (18+), $12/Youth (12-17), $7/Child (5-11), Free/Child 5 and Under.
Members are FREE – please register for this event using the code provided in your welcome email.
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