New Orleans museums are dedicated to the simmering gumbo of history and diversity that has inspired cultural creatives for centuries.
Our museums offer time traveling of the most stimulating variety, delivering engaging insights into how New Orleans’ past relates to its vibrant present, showcasing beauty both natural and bespoke. Whether you hunger for art, history or a deeper understanding of the New Orleans’ cultural scene, there is a museum that will deliver a more profound sense of place and past. Open a door. Here are some choices.
Art happens everywhere in New Orleans: on the street, in festivals and parks, and in citywide installations both organic and avant garde. The variety of inspiration is vast. It’s all here…
Stories of slaves and free people of color, of the Irish and Italians who immigrated to New Orleans, of battles won and lost and sacrifices that secured America’s freedom on the world…
