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:

John Baker "Chicken Noodle News: A CNN Whodunit" Lecture & Book Signing Tuesday, September 22 , 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Library Theater Free and Open to the Public
Chicken Noodle News is the story of how mavericks, misfits and dreamers faced huge odds (and sometimes each other) to build the world's first all news network. CNN hired some professional people and some who pretended to be TV professionals. Then there were the 'I've only been fired twice already,' inexperienced nut jobs looking for a job in television. The only thing that held this unlikely crew together was fear. There were no life boats on the Chicken Noodle News Network. This is not a chronological history of how CNN changed the news viewing habits of the world; John will leave that to Ted Turner and other visionaries. John was there through it all. This is his story.

John Baker
"Chicken Noodle News: A CNN Whodunit"
Lecture & Book Signing
Tuesday, September 22 , 2009 at 7:00pm
Carter Library Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Chicken Noodle News is the story of how mavericks, misfits and dreamers faced huge odds (and sometimes each other) to build the world's first all news network. CNN hired some professional people and some who pretended to be TV professionals. Then there were the 'I've only been fired twice already,' inexperienced nut jobs looking for a job in television. The only thing that held this unlikely crew together was fear. There were no life boats on the Chicken Noodle News Network. This is not a chronological history of how CNN changed the news viewing habits of the world; John will leave that to Ted Turner and other visionaries. John was there through it all. This is his story.

Gary Pomerantz "The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age" Lecture & Book Signing Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Library Theater Free and Open to the Public
Pomerantz tells the true story of glamorous Kansas City housewife Myrtle Bennett, who killed her philandering husband over a bridge game in 1929. Combine the favorite card game of proper intellectuals including Warren Buffett with a scandalous real-life murder and a cheating husband, and you've got an irresistible summer read. (Pomerantz will start his presentation with a 13 minute video of actors portraying characters from the book) Pomerantz is a former AJC reporter and the author of "Where Peachtree meets Sweet Auburn" and "Wilt, 1962).

Gary Pomerantz
"The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age"
Lecture & Book Signing
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:00pm
Carter Library Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Pomerantz tells the true story of glamorous Kansas City housewife Myrtle Bennett, who killed her philandering husband over a bridge game in 1929. Combine the favorite card game of proper intellectuals including Warren Buffett with a scandalous real-life murder and a cheating husband, and you've got an irresistible summer read. (Pomerantz will start his presentation with a 13 minute video of actors portraying characters from the book) Pomerantz is a former AJC reporter and the author of "Where Peachtree meets Sweet Auburn" and "Wilt, 1962).

Lane Montgomery "Never Again, Again, Again...:Genocide: Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur" Lecture & Book Signing Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 7:00pm Carter Library Theater Free and Open to the Public
A powerful photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur. More than a chronicle of dates and death tolls, it gives a personal history of victims, perpetrators and consequences. With texts by Terry George, Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Amb. James Rosenthal, et. al.

Max Cleland "Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove" Lecture & Book Signing Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Center Day Chapel Free and Open to the Public
Most of Cleland's animosity dates back to the 2002 re-election race, when Cleland was running for a second term. He compares the GOP tactics used against him to what Republicans did to John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina presidential primary. As to the infamous TV ad the GOP ran against Cleland, which featured pictures of the senator alongside photos of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland called it a "new low in national politics" and an "absolute distortion of reality."

Max Cleland
"Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove"
Lecture & Book Signing
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
Free and Open to the Public

Most of Cleland's animosity dates back to the 2002 re-election race, when Cleland was running for a second term. He compares the GOP tactics used against him to what Republicans did to John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina presidential primary. As to the infamous TV ad the GOP ran against Cleland, which featured pictures of the senator alongside photos of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland called it a "new low in national politics" and an "absolute distortion of reality."

Zachary Karabell "SUPERFUSION: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It" Lecture & Book Signing Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Library Theater Free and Open to the Public
Designated a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, Zachary Karabell is bringing a profound and refreshingly optimistic outlook to a world economy in crisis. As President of Fred Alger and Company, he was the Portfolio Manager of the China-US Growth Fund, which won both a Lipper Award for top performance and a 5-star designation from Morningstar. From his work on the fund Karabell began to identify the profound implications of converging economies between China and the United States, a phenomenon he and others have called "Chimerica." Considered the leading expert on the complicated relationship between China and the United States, Karabell's new and anticipated book Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on it will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009.

Zachary Karabell
"SUPERFUSION: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It"
Lecture & Book Signing
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:00pm
Carter Library Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Designated a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, Zachary Karabell is bringing a profound and refreshingly optimistic outlook to a world economy in crisis. As President of Fred Alger and Company, he was the Portfolio Manager of the China-US Growth Fund, which won both a Lipper Award for top performance and a 5-star designation from Morningstar.

From his work on the fund Karabell began to identify the profound implications of converging economies between China and the United States, a phenomenon he and others have called "Chimerica." Considered the leading expert on the complicated relationship between China and the United States, Karabell's new and anticipated book Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on it will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009.

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. [ More Information ]

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.

[ More Information ]

****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.

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