Michael C. Carlos Museum

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Visit Acker...

Cost: Free-$10

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Visit Acker...

Cost: Free-$10

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Enjoy after...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Enjoy after...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. The Tibetan...

Cost: Free-$12

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Every day m...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. Rangoli, gr...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. As part of ...

Cost: $65-$85

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. As part of ...

Cost: $65-$85

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. What is ‘cl...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. From his wo...

Cost: $15-$20

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. In an immen...

Cost: Free

The Carlos Museum is open, and our standard operating hours remain unchanged. However, in accordance with current Emory University policy, docent-led tours have been canceled through the end of May, and our programs have been canceled or rescheduled. Visit carlos.emory.edu for updates. In an immen...

Cost: Free

Author Vicky Shecter will read from her latest book about six historical rebel queens and then lead a tour the galleries to explore images and stories of warrior women across the collections. After the tour, children will create their own warrior shields with artist Ana Vizurraga. For children age...

Cost: $20-$30

Join Curator of Works on Paper Andi McKenzie for a gallery talk on the etchings and drawings by the German surrealist Unica Zürn in the exhibition This Strange Presence.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited, and online registration is required.

Cost: Free

Categories: Museum In a lecture titled “Marketing Gods: Mediating Divinity in the Bazaars of Banaras,” Andy Rotman, Professor of Religion and South Asian Studies at Smith College examines the ways that gods have functioned like brands in the bazaar—defining reputations, what it means to be reputable...

Cost: Free

In 2002, India embarked on a plan to brand itself for investment and tourism with its “Incredible India” campaign, which brought together every government sector to market the nation. This was the beginning of “Brand India.” Now, after a huge influx of multinational products and advertising and a p...

Cost: Free

Categories: Museum

Former Emory professor and current president of Middlebury College, Laurie Patton, discusses her new book Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late 20th Century, published by University of Chicago Press.

This lecture is co-sponsored by Emory's Department of Middl...

Cost: Free

In Palace of Illusions, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni recasts the Mahabharata through the eyes of Panchaali (Draupadi), the fire-born heroine of the great epic. Married to five royal husbands, brothers who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest ...

Cost: $40-$60

In 1967, Anant Pai started a comic book company called Amar Chitra Katha (“immortal picture stories” in Hindi), to retell classical works of Indian literature such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in a contemporary, child-friendly format. Whether you’ve grown up with ACK or are experiencing them ...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family In 1967, Anant Pai started a comic book company called Amar Chitra Katha (“immortal picture stories” in Hindi), to retell classical works of Indian literature such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in a contemporary, child-friendly format. Whether you’ve grown up with A...

Cost: Free

Anthony Grafton considers the meaning and relevance of margin notes found in Renaissance texts. In this period, educated readers went through their texts pen in hand. They underlining passages, adding references to names and short summaries in the margins, and interpreting or responding to the text....

Cost: Free

Categories: Museum

In a lecture titled "Images in the Margins: Renaissance Readers Draw the Meanings of their Texts," Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton, considers the meaning and relevance of margin notes found in Renaissance texts.

In this period, educated readers we...

Cost: Free

Heather Hyde Minor, Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame will present a lecture on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Lost Book." Piranesi was an 18th century artist famous for his architectural etchings of Rome.

Recommended Parking: Oxford Road Parking Deck Fishburne Parking Deck

Cost: Free

Join Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen for a gallery talk titled ‘“Not the Classical Ideal‘: Unconventional Bodies and Bad Behaviors in Greek and Roman Art.”

This event is free and open to the Emory community and the public, but space is limited and online registration is required.

Cost: Free

Categories: Museum

Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Curator of African Art Amanda Hellman discusses how Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, traveled to Africa.

Cost: Free

Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Curator of African Art Amanda Hellman discusses how Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, traveled to Africa.

Cost: Free

In this story from Kerala, India, children will hear about some of the amazing feats of Hanuman, monkey god and a hero of the Indian epic the Ramayana, before exploring the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India and another gallery that may be surprising, then head to the studio to make jewel-encr...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family In this story from Kerala, India, children will hear about some of the amazing feats of Hanuman, monkey god and a hero of the Indian epic the Ramayana, before exploring the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India and another gallery that may be surprising, then head to t...

Cost: Free

The next installment of ECMSA Beethoven 2020 features Sissi Zhang on violin, Roy Harran on cello and William Ransom on piano. Beethoven works to be performed are the Variations for Cello, Violin Sonata No.3 and the Romance in G. ECMSA “Beethoven 2020” is a major year-long celebration of the 250th ...

Cost: Free

In a conversation titled “Guising as God,” Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger of Emory’s Department of Religion and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies discuss the practice of vesham, using clothing and ornamentation to guise and disguise, across a range of...

Cost: Free

Categories: Arts and Culture In a conversation titled “Guising as God,” Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger of Emory’s Department of Religion and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies discuss the practice of vesham, using clothing and ornamentation to guise an...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family The inexpensive and widely produced lithographic prints of Raja Ravi Varma featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine made it possible for many families to have images of the Hindu deities in their homes for the first t...

Cost: $15-$20

The inexpensive and widely produced lithographic prints of Raja Ravi Varma featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine made it possible for many families to have images of the Hindu deities in their homes for the first time. After exploring these i...

Cost: $15-$20

Old Kingdom Egypt is famous for its pyramids and kings, but beyond the royal monuments, how was the state actually run? Who had power and how was it being used? In a lecture titled "Power in Death: Mastabas and Provincial Elite Power in Old Kingdom Egypt," Dr. Jessica Tomkins, visiting assistant pro...

Cost: Free

Old Kingdom Egypt is famous for its pyramids and kings, but beyond the royal monuments, how was the state actually run? Who had power and how was it being used? In a lecture titled "Power in Death: Mastabas and Provincial Elite Power in Old Kingdom Egypt," Dr. Jessica Tomkins, visiting assistant pro...

Cost: Free

US Poet Laureate Billy Collins describes Amit Majmudar’s work as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy.” In Dothead, nuclear radiologist, novelist, and former poet laureate of Ohio, Amit Majmudar asserts claims of both the self and the other. ...

Cost: $25-$40

Enjoy musical bedtime stories performed by the Vega String Quartet with some hot chocolate and marshmallows—and if you like, wear your pajamas and bring your favorite stuffed animal.

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family Photographer Manjari Sharma worked with artisans in India to assemble massive dioramas as settings for her photographs of Hindu deities featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine. Children will look closely look at the ...

Cost: Free

As part of Emory’s Human Health and the Arts initiative, the Carlos Museum invites you to begin or end your day with yoga, surrounded by Manjari’s Sharma’s large-scale images of Lakshmi, Vishnu, Shiva and other Hindu gods and goddesses in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Oc...

Cost: $65-$85

Artist Abhishek Singh will discuss the painting of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha he created at various locations around the city, from the imagery taken from Indian religion and culture and his experiences caring for elephants to the experiences with students and members of the Atlanta community...

Cost: Free

As part of Emory's Embodied: A Celebration of Human Health and the Arts initiative, the Carlos Museum invites you to begin or end your day with yoga, surrounded by Manjari’s Sharma’s large-scale images of Lakshmi, Vishnu, Shiva and other Hindu gods and goddesses in the exhibition Transcendent Deitie...

Cost: $65-$85

Categories: Kids

Old St. Nick himself returns to the Carlos to introduce some of his favorite classical works and give treats to good listeners.

This program is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Cost: Free

Old St. Nick himself returns to the Carlos to introduce some of his favorite classical works and give treats to good listeners.

This program is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids Under the image of a painting of the Jain cosmic man, children will hear the story of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth spiritual leader of the Jain religion, who was born a prince in India more than 2,600 years ago. He gave up his earthly possessions and lived a life devoted to teaching ...

Cost: Free

Explore the innovative impulse of humankind and the beginnings of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math throughout time and across the globe at the Carlos Museum. In this interactive workshop, educators will learn about the innovations of ancient American, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, and M...

Cost: $50

Some of Emory’s most outstanding undergraduate students from the Department of Music perform in this annual showcase of Emory talent.

Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Oxford Road Parking Deck

Cost: Free

Visit the Carlos Museum Bookshop for its annual two-day holiday sale, when all merchandise (including sale and bargain books) will be discounted 20%. Come browse shelves filled with books for all ages on art, history, world cultures, religion, folktales, myths, contemporary world fiction, graphic ...

Cost: Free

Poet and Emory University Distinguished Professor Kevin Young will read from his most recent book of poetry, “Brown.” A reception will precede the reading, and a book signing will follow. Young, who served as curator of literary collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at the Rose Library...

Cost: Free

In 2010, the late Thalia N. Carlos purchased a 5th-century BC red-figure column krater with an image of Orpheus among the Thracians in honor of Atlanta Symphony Director Robert Spano. Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen discusses the story of Orpheus and its...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Families The allegorical prints in the special exhibition Through a Glass, Darkly were made with intaglio techniques in which the image was incised or scratched into a copper plate or other surface before inking the plate, layering with paper, and running through an etching pres...

Cost: Free

The Art History Department presents an Endowed Lecture by James Meyer, Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. "The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall's Mementos." Following the lecture Dr. Meyer will sign his new book "The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemp...

Cost: Free

Minor White provocatively declared “candid” photography a “dead end.” White’s alternative to the subject “caught unawares” was what he called the “camera-conscious” approach. In a lecture titled “From Expression to Creation: Minor White’s Staged Photography,” Todd Cronan, associate professor of Art ...

Cost: Free

Minor White provocatively declared “candid” photography a “dead end.” White’s alternative to the subject “caught unawares” was what he called the “camera-conscious” approach. In a lecture titled “From Expression to Creation: Minor White’s Staged Photography,” Todd Cronan, associate professor of Art ...

Cost: Free

The painting of the Jain cosmic man on view in the Asian galleries beginning October 12 is a visual representation of the Jain conception of the universe. Children will look closely at the painting, exploring the various realms inhabited by humans and other beings. Then they will move to the studio ...

Cost: $15-$20

Categories: Kids The painting of the Jain cosmic man on view in the Asian galleries is a visual representation of the Jain conception of the universe. Children will look closely at the painting, exploring the various realms inhabited by humans and other beings. Then they will move to the studio to c...

Cost: $15-$20

Categories: Kids The story of Princess Gie Gie and her long daily trek for water is based on high-fashion model Georgie Badiel’s childhood experience growing up in Burkina Faso. After hearing the story and looking closely at a Makonde water vessel, a finely-decorated clay vessel from Mozambique, chi...

Cost: Free

Around the same time that the Netherlandish artists featured in Through A Glass, Darkly were mastering the art of engraving, Netherlandish distillers were perfecting genever, a distilled malt spirit (moutwijn) flavored with juniper berries (jeneverbes), the national spirit of the Netherlands, from w...

Cost: $15-$25

After visiting the exhibition Through a Glass, Darkly: Faith and Allegory in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt for inspiration, drop by the Tate Room to try your hand at drypoint etching. Incise your own design into the surface of a plate and run it through the press to create ...

Cost: Free

Violinist Emily Uematsu, recent winner of the Parnassus Society Award, makes her Atlanta debut performing works by Bach, Ravel, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Cost: Free

Between 1988 and 1991, the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology was transformed by the acquisition of more than 1,300 works of ancient American art from the collection of Carol and William C. Thibadeau, which resulted in the 1993 expansion of the museum. The Thibadeau family continues to e...

Cost: Free

Sign Up Engraving requires a single tool— the burin— to make intaglio prints of astounding clarity. The engraved line is unique in its brilliance and energy. A skilled engraver has complete mastery of every aspect of lineStudents will learn tool sharpening, image development, techniques for transfer...

Cost: $120 -$160

Categories: Kids In the Disney Pixar animated film Coco, Miguel journeys to the Land of the Dead accompanied by the street dog Dante, a type of Mexican hairless dog known as a Xoloitzcuintle. Visit the Art of the Americas galleries before the film to see ancient West Mexican ceramic versions of thes...

Cost: Free-$5

Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt explores the centrality of visual allegory to the religious culture of the Low Countries. The term allegory—etymologically, “other speaking”—alludes to a process whereby images of persons, objects,...

Cost: Free

Join contemporary art collector Lindsay Marshall, Curator of Works on Paper Andi McKenzie, and PhD candidate in Emory's Art History Department Catherine Barth for a conversation about the life and work of photographer Minor White. Marshall was an early collector of White’s work and of others in his ...

Cost: Free

join Dr. Walter S. Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, Director of Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and co-curator of Through A Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, as he leads leads vi...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids

Gary Motley and his trio introduces young audiences to the quintessential American musical art form in this fun and interactive performance.

This program is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids In the Art of the Americas Galleries, sitting beneath a pair of jade earspools in the shape of waterlilies, children will hear Maya Christina Gonzalez’s story of a young girl who loves rivers, illustrated in the same blue and green colors of water and jade. Children will move to th...

Cost: Free

In 2018, the Carlos Museum received the Senusret Collection from the Georges Ricard Foundation. The collection of approximately 1,500 objects includes Late Period coffins with mummies, gilded funerary masks, finely crafted bronze statuettes, and a collection of ancient glass. Enjoy afternoon tea and...

Cost: Free

Resistance to allegory is as old as allegory itself. We may prefer what is clear to what is obscure, what is easy to what is difficult. But Netherlanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries loved allegory. In a lecture titled “Why can’t things be just as they are?”: On the Work and Reward o...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids

Artist Ana Vizurraga will lead children on an exploration of the Carlos collections, sketchbooks in hand, looking at designs and patterns to translate onto locally sourced gourds using “pyrography”—drawing with fire!

For elementary school-aged children. Space is limited, and onlin...

Cost: $15-$20

Categories: Kids and Family Explore the moccasins in the Native North American gallery with the guide Check Out These Kicks and play the memory game Match the Mocs, both developed by 2019 Emory graduate Klamath Henry (Shasta/Tuscarora). Then, come down to the studio to decorate your own miniature ki...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family Under the gaze of a Greek lion, children will hear the fables of “The Lion and the Mouse” and “The Fox and the Mask” as told by Aesop in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago. After looking for lions, mice, and theater masks in the galleries, children will head to the ...

Cost: Free

Categories: Kids and Family In the Ptolemaic Period of ancient Egypt, the vulture headdress was worn by royal women to show their connection with the goddesses. Artist Pam Beagle-Daresta used felt and possibly a bit of magic to design a vulture headdress that children can make and then wear them hom...

Cost: $15-$20

Join a panel of conservators for a discussion about the examination and treatment of a 19th-century Indian painting depicting the Jain cosmos in human form. In preparation for its display, the team has been treating this painting on view in the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery since mid-August. Th...

Cost: Free

Join Dr. Walter S. Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, Director of Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and co-curator of Through A Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, as he leads leads vi...

Cost: Free

“Performance is the beginning and the endpoint of the Iliad.” —Stanley Lombardo The Carlos Museum and Theater Emory present a live, three-day reading of Homer’s Iliad, a story of “raging anger and its human toll.” Over three days, 26 readers will perform all 24 books of the epic poem using Stanley...

Cost: Free

In 2017, Walter Melion and John Clum donated 194 prints to the Carlos, transforming the museum’s Works on Paper collection. Several works from that gift are featured in the exhibition Through A Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, including tw...

Cost: Free