The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University is now a Blue Star Museum, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, that provides free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day this year. This offer will start May 27 at the Carlos Museum and 1,300 other museums around the country. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families.
Director of the Carlos Museum, Bonnie Speed, said, “We are pleased to partner with the National Endowment of Arts and Blue Star Families. Offering free admission to our military personnel and their families is a small, but heartfelt token of our appreciation, and we hope they will find their experiences here enriching and inspiring.”
“Blue Star Museums may be the program at the NEA of which I am proudest,” said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. “Blue Star Museums recognizes and thanks our military families for all they are doing for our country, and simultaneously begins young people on a path to becoming life-long museum goers.”
The Carlos Museum is one of the Southeast’s premier museums with major collections of Greek and Roman, Ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Nubian, Ancient American, African, and Asian art, as well as a collection of works on paper from the Renaissance to the present.
The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. For more about The Carlos Museum, visit www.carlos.emory.edu.
