Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a unique experience for the visitor. Through displays of room settings, objects, documents, photographs, audio, and video, visitors can acquire a close-up view of the modern American Presidency.

Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize is on display

Changing exhibits are drawn from the library and museum collections or are based on themes relating to the presidency and American political history. Many of these are traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution, other Presidential Libraries, and other museums around the world.

If you would like to be notified about upcoming exhibits, book signings, lectures or presentations, please contact us .

Our current schedule is:

A View from the Periscope May 10, 2008 - August 3, 2008
In celebration of Jimmy Carter�s becoming a submariner 60 years ago, this exhibition of paintings and drawings provides a look at the unique role of the U.S. Submarine Service. The paintings and drawings come from the U.S. Naval Historic Center's art collection. This fascinating exhibition includes a 1902 drawing of the first submarine, Hunley, as well as 42 other historic paintings and drawings from WWII to the 1980s. Artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Georges Shreiber, and John Charles Roach capture the mystery of the submarine and the adventurous nature of those who serve on them.

A View from the Periscope
May 10, 2008 - August 3, 2008

In celebration of Jimmy Carter�s becoming a submariner 60 years ago, this exhibition of paintings and drawings provides a look at the unique role of the U.S. Submarine Service. The paintings and drawings come from the U.S. Naval Historic Center's art collection. This fascinating exhibition includes a 1902 drawing of the first submarine, Hunley, as well as 42 other historic paintings and drawings from WWII to the 1980s. Artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Georges Shreiber, and John Charles Roach capture the mystery of the submarine and the adventurous nature of those who serve on them.

Southern Order of Storytellers "Flag-Flyin' Tales for the Fourth of July" Friday, July 4th, 2008 Carter Library & Museum Theater at 2:00pm Free with Paid Museum Admission
Again this year, the Southern Order of Storytellers will perform patriotic tales that are fun for the whole family. Hear tales of "Me 'n the Redcoats", "Windy, Wormy Wiley, American Hero" "The Christmas Visit" and "America the Beautiful." The performance is included at no extra charge with your paid museum admission. Children 16 years old and younger are always free.

Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari Monday, July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2008 at 10:00am Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby Free and 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 an outdoor Garden Safari. Story time will be offered in the museum lobby, at the colorful bean bag seating area by the Book Nook sign. Themes we will include are the presidency, leadership, growing up, roles adults play, etc. Simple language and colorful illustrations are included in every book. Colorful beanbag chairs are available to sit in. Best for ages 3-7. [ More Information ]

Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari
Monday, July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2008 at 10:00am
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby
Free and 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 an outdoor Garden Safari. Story time will be offered in the museum lobby, at the colorful bean bag seating area by the Book Nook sign. Themes we will include are the presidency, leadership, growing up, roles adults play, etc. Simple language and colorful illustrations are included in every book. Colorful beanbag chairs are available to sit in.

Best for ages 3-7.

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Salman Rushdie "The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel..." Lecture & Book Signing Monday, July 7, 2008 at 7:00pm Carter Center / Ivan Allen Pavilion See below for ticket information
This is a vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing book, full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers. Tickets to this lecture and book signing are available through A Cappella Books at (404) 681-5123. Attendees will receive a signed copy of The Enchantress of Florence with each ticket purchased. Please visit A Cappella Books or call (404) 681-5123 for more information.

Salman Rushdie
"The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel..."
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Center / Ivan Allen Pavilion
See below for ticket information

This is a vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing book, full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers. Tickets to this lecture and book signing are available through A Cappella Books at (404) 681-5123. Attendees will receive a signed copy of The Enchantress of Florence with each ticket purchased.

Please visit A Cappella Books or call (404) 681-5123 for more information.

Stephen Carter "Palace Council" Lecture & Book Signing Monday, July 21, 2008 at 7:00pm Carter Library & Museum Theater Free and Open to the Public
Spanning the years from 1954 to 1974, bestseller Carter's third novel, a subtle and intelligent page-turner, centers on the murder of a prominent white Wall Street attorney, Philmont Castle. After literally stumbling on Castle's garroted corpse in a Harlem park, Eddie Wesley, a young and ambitious African-American writer, is afraid to identify himself to the police. An inverted cross bearing a cryptic inscription clutched in the victim's hand intrigues Wesley enough for him to pursue a trail that leads to a shadowy group of conspirators known as the Palace Council. Aided by his on-again, off-again love interest, Aurelia Treene, Wesley also searches for his beloved sister, Junie, whose disappearance may be connected to Castle's death. Though aspects of the plot require more suspension of disbelief than in Carter's previous novels. Publishers Weekly

Stephen Carter
"Palace Council"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, July 21, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Spanning the years from 1954 to 1974, bestseller Carter's third novel, a subtle and intelligent page-turner, centers on the murder of a prominent white Wall Street attorney, Philmont Castle. After literally stumbling on Castle's garroted corpse in a Harlem park, Eddie Wesley, a young and ambitious African-American writer, is afraid to identify himself to the police. An inverted cross bearing a cryptic inscription clutched in the victim's hand intrigues Wesley enough for him to pursue a trail that leads to a shadowy group of conspirators known as the Palace Council. Aided by his on-again, off-again love interest, Aurelia Treene, Wesley also searches for his beloved sister, Junie, whose disappearance may be connected to Castle's death. Though aspects of the plot require more suspension of disbelief than in Carter's previous novels. Publishers Weekly

The Museum is open from 9 a.m.to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $8.00 - Adults; $6.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free - Children (16 and under). Parking - Free. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. For more information, please call 404-865-7101.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
Telephone: (404) 865-7100
Fax: (404) 865-7102
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