The Carlos Museum offers a wide range of academic, informal learning and social experiences, from programs for undergraduates to graduate students and medical school students. With your support, 2036 will further expand student engagement opportunities, developing programs that invite students to deepen their relationship with the Carlos Museum.

Accessibility is a top priority for the Carlos Museum. By expanding opportunities and accessibility to the museum, 2O36 can ensure that more children, students, and families are able to experience firsthand all the museum has to offer. Extended hours, free days, camp and workshop scholarships, reduced and free admission, and discounted programs for schools are a few examples of how support for this initiative will build our community and ensure everyone has access to experience works of art firsthand.

Innovative programming is a hallmark of the Carlos Museum.

2O36 will continue that tradition, launching a new lecture series—Ancients Among Us. In this annual interdisciplinary program, contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers inspired by antiquity will challenge both Emory and public audiences to look anew at our shared human history. As audiences continue to search for surprising and captivating storytelling, the Carlos Museum sees this series as an important contribution to campus and community.

The Carlos Museum is the only university museum with an art conservation lab in the region. The Parsons Conservation Lab not only preserves museum objects but also fosters unique training opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience with examination, analysis, preventive care, and treatment. Funding from 2O36 will support essential preservation for a wide variety of materials, as well as continuing research and collaboration initiatives among staff, faculty, and students.

Objects tell stories, The Carlos Museum creates and shares new knowledge through the study of objects- not only by museum curators and conservators but by scholars and students here at Emory and around the world and by descendent communities. New acquisitions foster opportunities for teaching and research, scholarly production, and community connection.

When you invest in 2O36, you invest in the museum's ability to inspire our community with meaningful stories about the past that inform our future.

As public funding for education shrinks, it’s more important than ever for the Carlos Museum to provide teachers with the tools they need to connect students to works of art from diverse cultures spanning five continents and nine millennia. 2O36 will generate support for professional development workshops for K-12 teachers, innovative use of technology for connecting the museum and the classroom, and most essential, opportunities for K-12 students to learn from actual works of art in the galleries.

Museums integrate and use technology to tell stories and connect with audiences. With your support and generosity, 2O36 will ensure that audiences have access to the rich array of information and context that surround works in the collection. From how an object was made and used to how it has been conserved, technology offers a window to a wider experience.

Multimedia guides to the collection, online exhibitions, educational resources, interactive games, video explorations, and three-dimensional models are just some of the ways to expand access and encourage engagement. 2O36 will keep the museum on the cutting edge of these protean technologies.