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, click here.

Our current schedule is:

Schoolhouse to White House:
"The Education of the Presidents"
September 13, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Free with Paid Admission to the Museum

This family-friendly exhibition will engage visitors of every age and interest. Documents, artifacts, photos and films drawn from the collections of the National Archives eleven Presidential Libraries reveal fascinating details about children that would grow up to be presidents. Journey back to a time of one room school houses, large public schools, and private tutors. See these future presidents as young sports stars, choir members, and musicians. Watch them mature into serious college and military academy students. Together these experiences demonstrate the variety of educational and extra-curricular experiences that trained and influenced our nation's future leaders.

Christopher Dickey "Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force-The NYPD" Lecture & Book Signing Monday, February 9, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater Free and Open to the Public
Newsweek's Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor introduces us to the 500 officers and analysts who make up the NYPD's anti-terrorist division worldwide.

Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari
BOOK NOOK WILL RESUME IN JUNE 2009 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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****We record some of our author lectures at the Carter Library and, in partnership with public broadcasting atlanta, have them put on the web. If you want to see any of our lectures or lectures at other facilities, go to the Atlanta Forum Network's website... Here are some of our lectures... Lectures

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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