Former name | Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology |
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Established | 1876 |
Location | 571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta United States |
Type | Art museum |
Visitors | 120,000 annually |
Director | Henry Kim |
Website | carlos |
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast,[1] including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Africa and the ancient Americas. The collections are housed in a Michael Graves designed building which is open to the public.[2]