Atlanta - Michael C. Carlos Museum

The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an fine art museum located inwards Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's primary campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient fine art collections inwards the Southeast,[1] including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, in addition to the ancient Americas. The collections are housed inwards a Michael Graves designed edifice which is opened upwards to the public.

A Pre-Columbian incense burner alongside a crocodile lid (500 - 1350 CE), from the Carlos Museum's extensive collection of Central American artifacts

The Museum's collections contain to a greater extent than than 16,000 works, in addition to the facility attracts 120,000 visitors annually. In add-on to permanent in addition to temporary exhibitions, the Museum is a source of educational programming, providing lectures, symposia, workshops, performances, in addition to festivals. The Carlos Museum likewise operates a teaching laboratory in addition to conservation center, in addition to publishes scholarly catalogues. The Museum likewise brings art, history, in addition to archeology to the classroom of Georgia children through its outreach program, Art Odyssey. The Carlos Museum likewise runs Odyssey Online, a Web site for school-age children that explores the diverse cultures reflected inwards the museum's collections.

One of the oldest museums inwards Georgia, the Museum's collections appointment dorsum to 1876, when a full general museum known every bit Emory College Museum was established on Emory University's master copy campus inwards Oxford, Georgia. After the academy was relocated to Atlanta, a little grouping of professors officially founded the Emory University Museum inwards 1919. The collections were housed in addition to displayed inwards diverse buildings roughly the campus.

Over the years, Atlanta human of affairs Michael C. Carlos donated over $20 1000000 to practice a permanent abode for the museum, which opened inwards 1985. The museum was renamed over again to the Emory University Museum of Art in addition to Archaeology in addition to was officially accredited past times the American Association of Museums every bit a museum of antiquities in addition to fine arts. Carlos died inwards Dec 2002 at the historic menses of 75.

A major expansion inwards 1993 transformed the museum into i of Atlanta's overstep arts institutions. Upon the novel building's opening, the museum became known every bit the Michael C. Carlos Museum, named later its nigh generous patron.

The museum's permanent Egyptian holdings were bolstered alongside the acquisition of 145 plant from Canada's Niagara Falls Museum inwards 1999. The elaborately decorated ancient coffins in addition to mummies of both humans in addition to animals shape the centerpiece of the permanent exhibition of ancient Egyptian art. Also inwards 1999, Carlos bequeathed a $10 1000000 gift specifically for the buy of ancient Greek in addition to Roman pieces. As a result, the Museum straight off owns in addition to exhibits the finest existing portrait of the Roman emperor Tiberius in addition to i of the country's best examples of Hellenistic sculpture, a depiction of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance. H5N1 full of 450 plant of fine art are straight off on display inwards galleries devoted to Greek in addition to Roman art.

In 1999, the Carlos Museum purchased an unidentified manful individual mummy that some idea could last a New Kingdom pharaoh. Through interrogation in addition to collaboration alongside Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to position the mummy every bit pharaoh Ramesses I. The museum returned the mummy to Arab Republic of Egypt inwards 2003 every bit a gift of goodwill in addition to international cultural cooperation.

History

One of the oldest museums inwards Georgia, the Museum's collections appointment dorsum to 1876, when a full general museum known every bit Emory College Museum was established on Emory University's master copy campus inwards Oxford, Georgia. After the academy was relocated to Atlanta, a little grouping of professors officially founded the Emory University Museum inwards 1919. The collections were housed in addition to displayed inwards diverse buildings roughly the campus.

Over the years, Atlanta human of affairs Michael C. Carlos donated over $20 1000000 to practice a permanent abode for the museum, which opened inwards 1985. The museum was renamed over again to the Emory University Museum of Art in addition to Archaeology in addition to was officially accredited past times the American Association of Museums every bit a museum of antiquities in addition to fine arts. Carlos died inwards Dec 2002 at the historic menses of 75.

A major expansion inwards 1993 transformed the museum into i of Atlanta's overstep arts institutions. Upon the novel building's opening, the museum became known every bit the Michael C. Carlos Museum, named later its nigh generous patron.

The museum's permanent Egyptian holdings were bolstered alongside the acquisition of 145 plant from Canada's Niagara Falls Museum inwards 1999. The elaborately decorated ancient coffins in addition to mummies of both humans in addition to animals shape the centerpiece of the permanent exhibition of ancient Egyptian art. Also inwards 1999, Carlos bequeathed a $10 1000000 gift specifically for the buy of ancient Greek in addition to Roman pieces. As a result, the Museum straight off owns in addition to exhibits the finest existing portrait of the Roman emperor Tiberius in addition to i of the country's best examples of Hellenistic sculpture, a depiction of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance. H5N1 full of 450 plant of fine art are straight off on display inwards galleries devoted to Greek in addition to Roman art.

In 1999, the Carlos Museum purchased an unidentified manful individual mummy that some idea could last a New Kingdom pharaoh. Through interrogation in addition to collaboration alongside Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to position the mummy every bit pharaoh Ramesses I. The museum returned the mummy to Arab Republic of Egypt inwards 2003 every bit a gift of goodwill in addition to international cultural cooperation.

 

On June 6, 2006 the museum purchased a headless statue Venus, for $968,000 at a Sotheby's auction inwards New York. H5N1 individual collector inwards Houston, Texas, agreed to sell to whoever purchased the body, the caput every bit well, which was end documented attached to the torso inwards 1836. The caput was sold for an additional $50,000.