General Information
• Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize is on display

Mailing Address:
441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498, USA

Telephone: 404-865-7100
Fax: 404-865-7102
Email: carter.library@nara.gov
WWW Address: www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov

Museum Hours:
9:00 am - 4:45 pm, Monday - Saturday
12:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Sunday

Museum Admission:
$8.00 - Adults; $6.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free - Children (16 and under)

Library (Research) Hours:
8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday

Public Conveniences:
Restrooms are to the right of the entrance and down the stairs. Telephones and water fountains are in the same area along the corridor.

Restaurant Hours:
11:00 am - 3:00 pm, Monday - Friday; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Saturday; CLOSED, Sunday

Administration:
National Archives and Records Administration, under provisions of the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955.

Architects:
Jova\Daniels\Busby of Atlanta and Lawton, Umemura & Yamamoto of Honolulu. Construction began in October, 1984 and was completed in October, 1986. Private funds were raised for the $26 million complex.
Landscape: EDAW, Inc. of Atlanta and Alexandria, Virginia. Japanese Garden was designed by Japanese master gardener, Kinsaku Nakane. The grounds comprise of 35 acres.

Building:
The Library consists of an archives and a museum and is approximately 69,750 square feet in size. This includes 15,269 square feet of exhibit space and 19,818 square feet of collection storage space. It is not a library in the usual sense but is a research facility and a museum. The archives is a repository of approximately 27 million pages of Jimmy Carter's White House material, papers of administration associates, including documents, memoranda, correspondence, etc. There are also 1/2 million photographs, and hundreds of hours film, audio and video tape.

Additional Information
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About Presidential Libraries
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