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The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia houses U.S. President Jimmy Carter's papers and other material
relating to the Carter administration and
the Carter family's life. The library also hosts special exhibits, such as Carter's Nobel Peace
Prize and a full-scale replica of the Oval Office, including a copy of the Resolute Desk.
The Carter Library and Museum includes some parts that are owned and
administered by the federal government, and some that are privately
owned and operated. The library and museum are run by the National
Archives and Records Administration and are part of the Presidential Library system of the federal
government. Privately-owned areas house Carter's offices and the
offices of the Carter Center, a non-profit human rights agency.
The library was built in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, on land that had
been acquired by the state of Georgia DOT, for an interchange between two redundant highways
that were cancelled by Carter when he was governor of Georgia, in response to a freeway revolt. (See Interstate 485, Georgia
400, Interstate 675, and the Stone
Mountain Freeway.) Construction started on October 2, 1984, and
the library was opened to the public on Carter's 62nd birthday,
October 1, 1986. The remainder of the land around the complex is
now a parkway and linear city
park called Freedom Parkway, which was originally
called "Presidential Parkway" (and at one point, "Jimmy Carter
Parkway"[1]) in its
planning stages.
The building housing the library and museum makes up 69,750
square feet (6480 m²), with 15,269 square feet (1419 m²) of space
for exhibits and 19,818 square feet (1841 m²) of archive and storage space. The library stacks
house 27 million pages of documents; 500,000 photos, and 40,000
objects, along with films, videos, and audiotapes. These
collections cover all areas of the Carter administration, from
foreign and domestic policy to the personal lives of President and
Mrs. Carter. A $10 million dollar renovation of the museum began in
April of 2009 with completion on President Carter's 85th birthday
in October 2009.[2]
References
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http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fnid%3D348%26dat%3D19940915%26id%3DJskHAAAAIBAJ%26sjid%3DijMDAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D6819%2C3799595&ei=iyGwSqSIB9eTtgfm_9GnCA&usg=AFQjCNF3nPFPCevrwAOA9cJGonkXzlOlsw
Freedom Parkway to open], Rome News-Tribune, - Sep 15,
1994
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http://www.cartercenter.org/news/multimedia/GeneralTopics/85thBirthday.html
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