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New Orleans Museums |
 From the Historic New Orleans Collection to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, our city has a lot to offer like exhibitions featuring local painters, sculptors and photographers. We also have displays which show the works of artists all over the world! Discover interesting, "corner" museums like the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum or learn more about African American history (integral to the development of the South) at the Amistad Research Center. We have only highlighted a few museums below, but for a more complete list, click here! (More)
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National World War II Museum
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 Dedicated in 2000 as The National D-Day Museum and now designated by Congress as the country's official World War II Museum, this remarkable attraction illuminates the American experience during the WWII era with moving personal stories, historic artifacts and powerful interactive displays. From the Normandy invasion to the sands of Pacific Islands and the Home Front, the Museum brings to life the teamwork, optimism, courage and sacrifice of the men and women who won the war and changed the world. (More)
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Musée Conti Wax Museum
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Louisiana Children's Museum
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 Meet a Legend Face-to- -Face! 300 years of history, legend and scandal. The Wax tells the story of New Orleans from her founding to the present day. Great for private parties and group tours. (more)
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 Discover the energetic learning and electrifying fun. More than 45,000 square feet of dynamic hands-on exhibitory... we're not your ordinary playhouse. The Louisiana Children's Museum is New Orleans' most playful place to explore, experience and learn. Plan a fun family outing. Enroll your child in a dynamic art holiday or summer camp. Organize a field trip or let the LCM bring the fun and learning to your classroom with unique outreach programs that make classroom lessons come to life. (More)
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New Orleans Museum of Art
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 The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city's oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects, valued in excess of $200 million. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, African and Japanese works, continues to grow. The five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA is one of the most important sculpture installations in the United States, with 50 sculptures situated on a beautifully landscaped site amongst meandering footpaths, reflecting lagoons, Spanish moss-laden 200-year-old live oaks, mature pines, magnolias, camellias, and pedestrian bridges. (More)
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Louisiana State Museum
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Historic New Orleans Collection
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 Showcasing the unique history and traditions of New Orleans, the Louisiana State Museum includes landmark properties the Cabildo, Presbyter, Old U.S. Mint, Madame John's Legacy and 1850 house. Venues also available for special events. (More)
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 The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. General and Mrs. L. Kemper Williams, collectors of Louisiana materials, established the institution in 1966 to keep their collection intact and available for research and exhibition to the public. (More)
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Ogden Museum of Southern Art
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 The mission of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, is to broaden the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South through its permanent collections, changing exhibitions, educational programs, publications, research center, and its Goldring-Woldenberg Institute for the Advancement of Southern Art and Culture. To that end, the museum will collect, conserve, exhibit, study, and interpret the art of the South within the context of the regions history and culture. (More)
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