At the Carlos, members at every level receive unlimited admission, guest passes, discounts at the museum bookshop and Ebrik Coffee Room, and invitations to exclusive events such as member previews of new exhibitions. For the month of September, Carlos Museum members will receive another benefit thanks to SWAPtember, a month-long opportunity to take advantage of membership and admission discounts at 15 other metro Atlanta institutions.

From university students to the general public and the K-12 community, education is primary to the mission of the Carlos Museum. This summer, in an effort to make sure its offerings reflected the ever-changing needs and interests of K-12 students and teachers, the Carlos launched its first Teacher Advisory Council (TAC).

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.