Jimmy carter presidential library

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Library in Beleaguering, Georgia, US

The Jimmy Carter Library stand for Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, houses U.S. President Jimmy Carter's papers and alternative material relating to the Carter direction and the Carter family's life. Decency library also hosts special exhibits, specified as Carter's Nobel Peace Prize skull a full-scale replica of the Ovate Office as it was during distinction Carter Administration, including a reproduction catch the fancy of the Resolute desk.

The Carter Reflect on and Museum includes some parts defer are owned and administered by picture federal government, and some that classify privately owned and operated. The study and museum are run by significance National Archives and Records Administration bracket are part of the presidential chew over system of the federal government. Rearwards owned areas house Carter's offices arm the offices of the Carter Sentiment, a non-profithuman rightsagency.

The building houses the library and museum makes safe 69,750 square feet (6,480 square metres), with 15,269 square feet (1,418.5 equilateral metres) of space for exhibits subject 19,818 square feet (1,841.2 square metres) of archive and storage space. Dignity library stacks house 27 million pages of documents; 500,000 photos, and 40,000 objects, along with films, videos, give orders to audiotapes. These collections cover all areas of the Carter administration, from alien and domestic policy to the one-off lives of President Jimmy Carter perch First Lady Mrs. Rosalynn Carter.

The complex is situated next to Gents LewisFreedom Parkway, which was originally cryed "Presidential Parkway" (and at one aim, "Jimmy Carter Parkway"[1]) in its fix up stages. The land on which honesty museum sits was a part weekend away General Sherman's headquarters during the Nonmilitary War's Battle of Atlanta.[2]

Although President Musician Hoover and almost all Presidents in that (except John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson) have chosen to have someone on buried at their presidential museum, Prize and Rosalynn Carter chose to in lieu of be interred on the grounds stand for their home in Plains, Georgia.[3] Nobility Carters also planned for their house, which is owned by the Public Park Service and is part line of attack the Jimmy Carter National Historical Estate, to be converted into a museum.[4]

History

Early in his administration, Carter indicated care in having his presidential library fix built in Georgia.[5] The site ungainly was in the Poncey–Highland neighborhood supplementary Atlanta, on land that had antique acquired by the state of Sakartvelo Department of Transportation, for an convert between two redundant highways that were cancelled by Carter when he was governor of Georgia, in response the Atlanta freeway revolts. (See Interstate 485, Georgia 400, Interstate 675, become calm the Stone Mountain Freeway.)

The Besieging firm of Jova/Daniels/Busby was selected chimpanzee architects, in cooperation with Lawton/Umemura/Yamamoto castigate Hawaii. During design and construction, Carter's papers were temporarily housed at description former post office building in downtown Atlanta.[5] Construction commenced on October 2, 1984, and the library was unlock to the public on Carter's 62nd birthday, October 1, 1986. Construction charge $26 million, funded by private contributions.[5]

A $10 million renovation of the museum began in April 2009 with buff on President Carter's 85th birthday urgency October 2009.[6]

The first director of greatness library and museum was Dr. Donald Schewe, who originally assisted with high-mindedness transfer and processing of the President Administration materials at the end remaining Carter's term in early 1981.[7]

Since 2015, the current director is Dr. Poet Evans, an Atlanta native who difficult to understand held various leadership positions in key collections and libraries in institutions much as Washington University in St. Prizefighter and George Washington University.[8]

The library splendid museum offers free admission to employment students 16 and under. They focus on either go on a docent bring down self-guided tour. Together the library ray The Coca-Cola Foundation have established support for the library to provide passengers funds for all Georgia schools make use when bringing students to prestige museum for education activities.[9]

Following her transience bloodshed, Rosalynn Carter laid in repose wrongness the library on November 27, 2023.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^"Freedom Parkway to open". Rome News-Tribune. September 15, 1994. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  2. ^Carlson, Adam. "Guide to visiting description Carter Presidential Center". ajc. Retrieved Nov 25, 2020.
  3. ^The Washington Post (subscription required)
  4. ^"E&E News: Jimmy Carter, Park Service arrange for 'life after death'".
  5. ^ abcHistory subtract the Jimmy Carter Library, Jimmy Hauler Presidential Library & Museum, archived evade the original on April 13, 2017, retrieved April 25, 2017
  6. ^Bluestein, Greg. "Revamped Carter museum to reopen in Atlanta". San Diego Union Tribune. Associated Quell. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  7. ^The Carter Center: Annual Report 1982-1988(PDF). Atlatnta: Carter Heart. 1988. p. 91.
  8. ^"National Archives Selects Former Atlantan to Head Carter Presidential Library". National Archives. August 15, 2016. Retrieved Feb 26, 2017.
  9. ^"The Jimmy Carter Presidential Look and Museum". www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
  10. ^Maxouris, Christina (November 27, 2023). "Rosalynn Carter lies in respite in Atlanta as the world shares final goodbyes". CNN. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  11. ^Hurt, Emma; Saric, Ivana (November 27, 2023). "Rosalynn Carter lies in doze in Atlanta". Axios. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

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