Welcome to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.
| News & Announcements |
NEW FIELD TRIP SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM!!!! - The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum and the Coca-Cola Foundation has generously established funding for the Carter Library to provide transportation funds for Georgia schools to use when bringing students to our newly-renovated museum for educational activities.
[ Field Trip Sponsorship Program ]COMING JULY 24 - OCTOBER 3, 2010: "FREEDOM'S SISTERS" Exhibit - "Freedom's SISTERS" is a compelling new interactive exhibition of twenty extraordinary women and their contributions to the struggle for equality and justice in America.
[ New Exhibit ]ON-LINE MUSEUM STORE - NOW OPEN...Shop at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Museum Store for unique gifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Simply click on Museum Store and pick from gifts you won't find anywhere else.
[ Museum Store ]***Please see below for more information on the Upcoming Events***
| Exhibits & Events |
- Preschool Visitors Monday / Book Nook - Mondays - June 21 & 28; July 12, 19 & 26; August 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30- Starting at 10:00am - Storytelling & Safari - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby - Free & Open to the Public
On select Mondays, Jimmy Carter Library staff and volunteers will read from a selection of story books in our library and conduct and conduct an outdoor Garden Safari. Best for ages 3-7. more...
- Freedom's SISTERS Exhibit - Saturday, July 24, 2010 - Sunday, October 3, 2010 - Free with Paid Admission to the Museum
"Freedom's SISTERS" is a compelling new interactive exhibition of twenty extraordinary women and their contributions to the struggle for equality and justice in America. Through their courageous actions, they changed the course of history. By defying their circumstances, they became American heroes. more...
- David V. Herlihy - "The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and his Mysterious Disappearance" - Monday, August 9, 2010 at 7:00pm - Lecture & Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Author of "Bicycle": The History, now tells the story of Frank Lenz. In the late 1880s, Lenz of Pittsburgh, was a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist. He dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized "safety-bicycle" with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondent for "Outing" magazine. more...
- Mark Pendergrast - "Inside the Outbreaks" - Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:00pm - Lecture & Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Mark Pendergrast turns his focus to a department of the Centers for Disease Control that investigates outbreaks of illness around the globe. Formed in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service originated during the polio years and progressed through anthrax, salmonella, rabies, smallpox, HIV, and Ebola to the present day. You name it, they identified it. more...
- Jonathan Schneer - "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" - Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 7:00pm - Lecture & Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar and Georgia Tech Professor Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germany's side in World War I. more...
- Jim Zogby - "ARAB VOICES: What They are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters" - Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 7:00pm - Lecture & Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
The Arab World is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. Arab Voices asks the questions, collects the answers, and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly. The book will bring into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding this important people. more...
- Salman Rushie - "Luka and the Fire of Life" (On Sale November 16, 2010) - Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 7:00pm - Lecture & Book Signing - Carter Center's Cecil B. Day Chapel- NOTE: ADMISSION CHARGED. Tickets to this event are available through A Cappella Books at (404) 681-5123.
A lush contemporary fable for all ages in which a young boy must battle his way through a magical world in order to save his father. On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay, a terrible thing happened: more...
