With so much to do in New Orleans, many forget that the city’s art scene is just as vibrant as the food and music. August is a special month for art lovers, with Museum Month offering access to dozens of museums for the price of one membership. Check out the highlighted exhibits below and search our calendar to find even more art in New Orleans.

Museum Month 

Purchase one membership and get access to all participating museums for the month of August. Museum Month 2025 includes 28 museums such as The Backstreet Cultural Museum, New Orleans African American Museum, The Cabildo, and more. Find the details for Museum Month here and enjoy staying cool this summer in NOLA. See what's on view at a few of the participating museums below, but be sure to check out all participants with just one museum membership this month!

Museum Month Picks

Browse Museum Month picks for art lovers, history buffs, families, and more here.

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“Louisiana Contemporary 2025”

“Louisiana Contemporary 2025,” presented by The Helis Foundation, is the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's annual juried exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists from across the state. This year’s juror, Daniel S. Palmer, PhD, Chief Curator, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, has selected 53 works by 50 artists from over 1,400 submissions. Louisiana Contemporary will be on view at the O from August 2, 2025 to January 4, 2026. 

Vince Fraser: Ancestral Odyssey

Vince Fraser's "Ancestral Odyssey" re-envisions the enduring legacy of the Black Masking Indians and the wider African diaspora through the vibrant lens of Afro-surrealism. This permanent, immersive installation at the New Orleans African American Museum, which opened on June 19, leverages cutting-edge digital artistry to explore profound themes of identity and history. Fraser, a London-based visionary, collaborates with New Orleans' own cultural guardians to create digital "portals of transformation"—powerful lenses to venerate the mysticism of the Black Masking Indians. The installation invites viewers into a multi-sensory environment where ceremonial practices become conduits for profound metamorphosis, and ancient African mythological realms are fused with technology to foster contemplation on identity, resistance, and reverence.

"Edge of Tomorrow"
Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
"Edge of Tomorrow"

“Edge of Tomorrow: Aerial Views of Louisiana’s Changing Coastline” 

Discover the beauty and fragility of Louisiana’s endangered wetlands through the lens of acclaimed artist and documentary photographer Ben Depp. In this newly acquired series of 11 large-format prints, Depp takes viewers on a soaring journey above the marshes and bayous, offering rare glimpses of the vibrant, imperiled ecosystems that lie just beyond Louisiana’s protective levees. Depp uses a paraglider to take his photographs, and his images capture the drama of both the landscape and the artist’s method, while sharing the urgency of this ongoing environmental dilemma. See this exhibit at The Historic New Orleans Collection from March 7 – October 19, 2025.