Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

The Museum will close April 27, 2009 for renovation and re-open October 1, 2009

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.

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:

CANCELLED

"An Evening of Jazz Under the Stars"
Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 8:00pm-10:00pm

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Gary Pomerantz
"The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, June 22, 2009
Carter Library Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Pomerantz, who wrote the critically acclaimed Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn and Wilt,1962, writes of larger-than-life characters and the timeless partnership game they played. The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Gay '20s and the darkness of the Depression. Ultimately it reveals a tension between husbands and wives that is eternal and that manifests itself at the bridge table-both then and now-in ways surprising and profound.

Pat Conroy "South of Broad" Lecture & Book Signing Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Center's Day Chapel Free and Open to the Public
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.

BOOK NOOK WILL RESUME IN THE SPRING OF 2010 Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari
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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