Events
March 20, 2019For centuries, Crescent City composers and performers have take to the road to share homegrown sounds with a worldwide audience.
Exhibitions
Original Tuxedo Jazz Band; between ca. 1925 and 1932; gelatin silver print; The William Russell Jazz Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, acquisition made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund, 92-48-L.218
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January 19, 2019 to August 4, 2019The music of New Orleans is the living product of dynamic cultural interactions played out over centuries in this diverse southern port city.
A Plantation Burial; 1860; oil on canvas by John Antrobus; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1960.46
This permanent exhibition presents a narrative of the state’s history using art and artifacts that date from precolonial history through Hurricane Katrina.
The Historic New Orleans Collection presents a panel version of "Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865" at its Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street.
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.