The Parsons Conservation Laboratory is located on the Plaza Level of the Carlos Museum, in an area accessible only to staff. In celebration of the museum’s centennial, conservators have set up a temporary lab space in the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery. 

Teachers, learn to read works of art and help your students discover what art reveals about the cultures that created it, the environment in which it was made, what it can tell us about belief systems and societal structures, and more at Carlos Museum workshops.

Camp Carlos gives children opportunities to work in small groups with professional artists. Campers have extended time in the museum’s galleries to look closely at works of art and explore the cultures that made them. In the studio, campers learn authentic techniques and use high quality and often unusual materials. 

On June 20-22, a group of museum supporters traveled to Washington, DC, with Carlos Museum Director Bonnie Speed and Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art Melinda Hartwig, visiting the National Geographic Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Freer/Sackler Gallery.

Keep your reading light but smart this summer with these popular takes on The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Greek mythology—and set the stage for the museum’s live reading of The Iliad this September 13-15!

Puzzling Pigments, a new SmARTy Pack activity, is now available to help children and their families “fill in the blanks.” In antiquity, many of the museum’s sculptures would have been decorated with colorful pigments made from minerals such as cinnabar and malachite.

The Veneralia100 co-chairs reflect on their experiences with the Michael C. Carlos Museum