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"Mystery in Motion" Now Open at the Presbyère

In collaboration with guest curators Kim Vaz-Deville and Ron Bechet, Louisiana State Museum examines the direct influence of multicultural spirituality within the carnival traditions of Black New Orleanians.

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A Colorful World in Black & White: Fonville Winans’ Photographs of Louisiana

New exhibition opens July 14 at Capitol Park Museum!

DRUMSVILLE: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat

Get a behind-the-scenes peak with music curator David Kunian and master drummer Luther Gray!

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Exhibitions

Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Color, sound, and energy fill the streets of New Orleans on Mardi Gras. While this pageantry might seem random and frivolous to the casual observer, many carnival parades, songs, activities, costumes, and masking traditions reflect diverse cultures and even sacred creeds. This is especially true...

The Golden Age of Aviation

The Golden Age of Aviation

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry P. Williams, who formed an air service in Patterson in 1928 that quickly rose to the top tier of air racing. Displays include numerous replica aircraft, such as the famous Miss Patterson #44 and the Gilmore #121,...

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation shows Louisiana’s impact on the nation and the world. From the Louisiana Purchase to the critical role Louisiana played in our nation’s wars (including the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the Civil War and both World...

Living with Hurricanes: Katrina & Beyond

Living with Hurricanes: Katrina & Beyond

Combining eyewitness accounts, historical context, immersive environments and in-depth scientific exploration, this exhibition shows the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and how Louisiana is learning to live more safely with hurricanes. Oral histories and artifacts, such as a Coast...

Marking Pictures: the Life and Work of Clementine Hunter

Marking Pictures: the Life and Work of Clementine Hunter

This exhibition explores the life and work of Clementine Hunter, one of the most important self-taught American artists of the twentieth century. Hunter, who referred to painting as “marking,” produced thousands of images drawn from her experiences working and living on Melrose Plantation in...

John James Audubon: Highlights from Birds of America

John James Audubon: Highlights from Birds of America

Fifteen double elephant folio engravings from John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published to great acclaim between 1827 and 1838, are on exhibit at the Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum. Audubon, who painted more birds in Louisiana than anywhere else, lived for a...

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat explores the role of percussion and rhythm in New Orleans and how the innovative drummers from the Crescent City continually changed that role and took it around the planet. The exhibit has a beautiful sampling of photographs and drums...

We Love You, New Orleans

We Love You, New Orleans

As part of New Orleans’ tricentennial activities, the Cabildo is proud to open a brand new exhibition, We Love You, New Orleans. Celebrating the people, places and things that make New Orleans one of the nation’s most unique cities to visitors and residents alike, the exhibition plays...

Mapping the Crescent

Mapping the Crescent

Maps shown in this exhibition represent the evolution of New Orleans over three centuries. The Mississippi River’s influence is always apparent, its curve bestowing the nickname Crescent City. Geographical constraints are evident, with cypress swamps dominating the landscape until engineers...

The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home

The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home

From "Buona Sera" to "Just A Gigolo," that "Old Black Magic" still has the world under Louis Prima’s spell! Join us at the New Orleans Jazz Museum for the exhibit The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home. As a trumpeter, singer, songwriter and performer, this son of New Orleans sons swinging...

Mardi Gras: It's Carnival Time in Louisiana!

Mardi Gras: It's Carnival Time in Louisiana!

Since 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d’Iberville, celebrated Shrove Tuesday at his encampment on the Mississippi River, Mardi Gras has been an integral part of Louisiana’s culture. Experience this extraordinary tradition through rare artifacts, scores of magnificent costumes,...

E.D. White & Bayou Lafourche Exhibition

E.D. White & Bayou Lafourche Exhibition

Exploring this National Historic Landmark will offer both a tour through a historical structure and the culture that surrounded the home throughout history. Situated on the banks of Bayou Lafourche, this was the residence of two of Louisiana’s significant political figures: Governor...

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Cabildo

The Cabildo

The Presbytère

The Presbytère

The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint

The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint

1850 House

1850 House

Madame John's Legacy

Madame John’s Legacy

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Capitol Park Museum

E.D. White Historic Site

E.D. White Historic Site

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum

Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum

Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum

Events

Olympic Glory with Hollis Conway: The First Interview in a Four-Part Series

Olympic Glory with Hollis Conway: The First Interview in a Four-Part Series

Please join us from 2:00–3:00 p.m. at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum as we bring four world-class Olympic athletes to the museum for a month-long lecture...

How Native Americans Shaped Early Louisiana: Multinational Settlements and French Colonization along the Gulf Coast with Elizabeth Ellis

How Native Americans Shaped Early Louisiana: Multinational Settlements and French Colonization along the Gulf Coast with Elizabeth Ellis

Before the establishment of New Orleans, the small colonial towns of Biloxi and Mobile were the centers of the French empire in the Lower Mississippi Valley. However, these were not powerful and...

Olympic Glory with Timothy Dement: The Second Interview in a Four-Part Series

Olympic Glory with Timothy Dement: The Second Interview in a Four-Part Series

Please join us from 2:00–3:00 p.m. at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum as we bring four world-class Olympic athletes to the museum for a month-long lecture...

Natchitoches Leadership Through Athletics Best of the Best Award Ceremony

Natchitoches Leadership Through Athletics Best of the Best Award Ceremony

Please join us from 10 am to 12 pm as the Natchitoches Leadership Through Athletics Committee hosts “The Best of Best” awards ceremony honoring several Natchitoches Parish senior athletes for their...

African Influence in Black Masking Traditions: A Conversation with Curators at the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac of Paris and Southern University at New Orleans

African Influence in Black Masking Traditions: A Conversation with Curators at the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac of Paris and Southern University at New Orleans

Scholars from the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac and SUNO and the guest curators of the current exhibition Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras will...

Olympic Glory with Danielle Scott-Arruda: The Third Interview in a Four-Part Series

Olympic Glory with Danielle Scott-Arruda: The Third Interview in a Four-Part Series

Please join us from 2:00–3:00 p.m. at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum as we bring four world-class Olympic athletes to the museum for a month-long lecture...

Olympic Glory with Warren Morris: The Fourth Interview in a Four-Part Series

Olympic Glory with Warren Morris: The Fourth Interview in a Four-Part Series

Please join us from 2:00–3:00 p.m. at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum as we bring four world-class Olympic athletes to the museum as part of a month-long...

The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 with K. Stephen Prince

The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 with K. Stephen Prince

Join us online Thursday at 6:00 p.m. CDT for an evening with author K. Stephen Prince as he explores the legacy of the Robert Charles riots of 1900. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the...

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