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.

Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari
Monday, August 4, 18, and 25, 2008 at 10:00am
Monday, September 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2008 at 10:00
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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National Issues Forums
"Georgia Deliberations: What Policy Decisions Today Will Bring Us Tomorrow"
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 3-5 - Coping with the Cost of Health Care:
How Do We Pay for What We Need?
Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 3-5 - The Energy Problem: Choices for an Uncertain Future
Monday, October 13, 2008 from 3-5 - What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools?
Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Free and Open to the Public

The Carter Presidential Library, The National Issues Forum and the Richard Russell Library for Political Research, UGA will host community issues forums on today's critical issues.

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Bob Schieffer
"Bob Schieffer's America"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
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CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer discusses his new book Bob Schieffer's America, a collection of 168 thought-provoking essays, pieces that cover a broad range: from the hard issues of today to the human stories that show us who we are; from politics and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch us, make us laugh, or reveal the small shifts in our culture that sometimes just creep up on us. Tickets are available through A Cappella Books (404)681-5123 for $10 or free with the purchase of Schieffer's book. Members of "Friends of the Carter Library" receive free admission and can reserve a seat by calling 404-865-7109.

Ken Silverstein
"Turkmeniscam"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, October 13, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress-shaking hands, bearing gifts, and brandishing agendas. Everyone knows how the back-scratching game of money, power, and PR is played. For a good enough offer, there are those who will gladly dive into the dirtiest political waters. The real question is: Just how low will they sink? Veteran investigative journalist Ken Silverstein made it his mission to find out-and "Turkmeniscam" was born.

Sarah Vowell
"The Wordy Shipmates"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Chapel
Free and Open to the Public

Sarah's new book is The Wordy Shipmates. Sarah travels through the past, this time to seventeenth century New England. From the British Library to the Mohegan Sun casino, from the nation�s first synagogue to a Mayflower waterslide, Vowell studies the Puritan effect and finds their beliefs about church and state more interesting than their buckles and corn reputation would suggest. Free tickets at A Cappella Books 404-681-5128.

Jon Meacham
"American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Lecture & Book Signing
Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

"Every so often a terrific biography comes along that shines a new light on a familiar figure in American history. So it was with David McCullough and John Adams, so it was with Walter Isaacson and Benjamin Franklin, so it is with Jon Meacham and Andrew Jackson. A master storyteller, Meacham interweaves the lives of Jackson and the members of his inner circle to create a highly original book." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Father John Dear
"A Persistent Peace"
Lecture & Book Signing
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

John Dear is a Jesuit priest who has been in the forefront of the religious peace movement in the United States. He is the embodiment of a peacemaker. He has led by example through his actions and in his writings and in numerous sermons, speeches and demonstrations. He believes that peace is not something static, but rather to make peace is to be engaged, mind, body and spirit. His teaching is to love yourself, to love your neighbor, your enemy, and to love the world and to understand the profound responsibility in doing all of these.--Desmond Tutu

Ted Turner "Call Me Ted" Lecture & Book Signing Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 7:00pm Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater Free and Open to the Public
In Call Me Ted, you'll hear Ted Turner's distinctive voice on every page. Always forthright, he tells you what makes him tick and what ticks him off, and delivers an honest account of what he's all about. Inspiring and entertaining, Call Me Ted sheds new light on one of the greatest visionaries of our time.

****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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