Events
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July 11, 2017
Journalist 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).
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July 12, 2017
A lecture by Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
- July 15, 2017
Alecia Long, the Paul and Nancy Murrill Professor of History at LSU, will lead a discussion and screening of the controversial 1978 film “Pretty Baby.”
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May 29, 2017 to September 3, 2017
The 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
- April 21, 2017 to December 30, 2017
Giants 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).
- April 5, 2017 to December 9, 2017
This award-winning exhibition revived the sights and sounds of New Orleans’s former red-light district a century after its closing.
- May 2, 2017 to November 4, 2017
The Laura Simon Nelson Galleries will once again showcase selections from the extensive collection of Louisiana art donated to THNOC by Laura Simon Nelson.
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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.
The Louisiana History Galleries are temporarily closed to allow for the installation of New Orleans, the Founding Era. They will reopen in June 2018.
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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.