Events
Gwen Thompkins
July 11, 2017Journalist Gwen Thompkins will discuss and sign copies of the new edition of Danny Barker’s “A Life in Jazz” (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2016).
Sherrie Tucker
July 12, 2017A lecture by Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
Pretty Baby movie poster; 1978; offset lithography; by Paramount Pictures; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2014.0506.95
July 15, 2017Alecia Long, the Paul and Nancy Murrill Professor of History at LSU, will lead a discussion and screening of the controversial 1978 film “Pretty Baby.”
May 29, 2017 to September 3, 2017The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to once again participate in Blue Star Museums, a program to show appreciation for US military personnel and their families.
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.
The Spring Fiesta Art Show; 1941; oil on canvas by Clarence Millet (1897–1959); The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of Laura Simon Nelson, 1996.122.1
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May 2, 2017 to November 4, 2017The Laura Simon Nelson Galleries will once again showcase selections from the extensive collection of Louisiana art donated to THNOC by Laura Simon Nelson.
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.
