Events
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November 15, 2017For the 15th Les Comédiens Français Lecture, THNOC will screen the silent film with live, improvised musical accompaniment by pianist Karol Mossakowski.
Exhibitions
Poster for 1988 Jazz Jamboree Festival in Warsaw, Poland; 1988; offset lithogragh by Waldemar Świerzy; The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fritz Daguillard, 2017.0003.4
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April 21, 2017 to December 30, 2017Giants of Jazz: Art Posters by Waldemar Świerzy from the Daguillard Collection highlights THNOC’s new collection of jazz posters made by the Polish artist Waldemar Świerzy (1931–2013).
![Postcard showing view of Storyville; New Orleans: C. B. Mason, [1904–8]; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.362.16](https://www.hnoc.org/sites/default/files/events/1979-362-16.jpg "Postcard showing view of Storyville; New Orleans: C. B. Mason, [1904–8]; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.362.16")
Postcard showing view of Storyville; New Orleans: C. B. Mason, [1904–8]; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.362.16
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April 5, 2017 to December 9, 2017This award-winning exhibition revived the sights and sounds of New Orleans’s former red-light district a century after its closing.
In 2017, THNOC unveiled a scale model of the forthcoming facility accompanied by a history of the 200-year-old property, as well as information about the in-progress construction.
A Plantation Burial; 1860; oil on canvas by John Antrobus; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1960.46
The Louisiana History Galleries are temporarily closed to allow for the installation of New Orleans, the Founding Era. They will reopen in June 2018.
The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to announce the donation of more than 300 hand-carved decoys and other works of art by southeastern Louisianan craftsmen.
