The collections of the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University span the globe and the centuries. Housed in a distinguished building by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is also home to collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day.
The Carlos Museum works with Emory faculty members to develop unique special exhibitions that draw on collections from around the world to engage the public and contribute to current scholarship. The Museum also mounts exciting traveling exhibitions developed by other institutions and makes them available to its community.
February 9 - August 31, 2008
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the Carlos Museum, Lost Kingdoms of the Nile features some of the most significant archaeological treasures ever found in Africa . . .
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February 9, 2008
The Museum announces the re-opening of the galleries of Sub-Saharan African art. Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, recent acquisitions, and loans from private collections, the galleries are organized around three themes . . .
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March 8 - June 29, 2008
American life as experienced through the land is the focus of the exhibition Cultivating America: Visions of the Landscape in Twentieth-century Prints, which opens in the John Howett Works on Paper Study Room on March 8, 2008.
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