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:

Pat Conroy "South of Broad" Lecture Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 7:00pm Carter Center's Day Chapel Tickets $30 (price includes a pre-signed book) "Friends of the Carter Library" $25 (price includes a pre-signed book) Tickets available at A CAPPELLA Books or at the door
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.

John Baker
"Chicken Noodle News: A CNN Whodunit"
Lecture & Book Signing
Thursday, September 17, 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.

Max Cleland
"Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
Free and Open to the Public

Most of Cleland's animosity dates back to the 2002 reelection 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."

Lane Montgomery "Never Again, Again, Again...:Genocide: Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur" Lecture & Book Signing Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:30pm - 9:00pm 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.

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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