About Us
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.
In a complex of historic French Quarter buildings at 533 Royal Street, The Collection operates a museum with changing exhibitions, the Williams Residence (a house museum) and museum shop. The Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres Street is an archive, which comprises some 35,000 library items, more than two miles of documents and manuscripts, and approximately 350,000 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, and other artifacts along with changing exhibitions.
