Interactive feature in the dining room, with items from a tea set labeled to show their connection to slavery. Photo by Linda Cabasin

View from the grand entrance hall to the modest internal staircase used by enslaved workers. Photo by Linda Cabasin

Sign at Gunston Hall showing the mansion, garden, trails and other features. Photo by Linda Cabasin

In the museum’s “Revolutionary Rights” exhibition, panels, objects, and displays convey the colonists’ grievances against Britain and their evolving ideas about government. Photo by Linda Cabasin

The museum’s “Declare Your Rights!” exhibit allows visitors to create a list of individual rights from those George Mason wrote about in the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Photo by Linda Cabasin

The museum’s re-created colonial tavern room evokes the kind of space where Mason drafted the revolutionary Virginia Declaration of Rights … More

View with visitor walking away from the mansion on a lane created as part of Mason’s landscape design. Photo by Linda Cabasin