Events
“Recitations (...pour le triomphe de la liberté et de l'égalité...)”
January 9, 2018The Historic New Orleans Collection presents the first program in conjunction with the exhibition "Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina," presented by The Helis Foundation.
Twelfth Night Revelers pageant design (detail); created for January 6, 1871; watercolor by Charles Briton; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1975.117.9
January 10, 2018 to February 8, 2018This year, THNOC’s annual Mardi Gras guided tours will take visitors through the Williams Residence.
Dianne Honoré; photograph by Cedric Ellsworth, NOLA Vieux Photography
January 30, 2018Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Mardi Gras at Home at the Williams Residence
Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans by Howard Philips Smith (University Press of Mississippi, 2017)
January 31, 2018Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Mardi Gras at Home at the Williams Residence
Mardi Gras costume design; 1970; watercolor by Larry Youngblood; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2013.0131.2
January 20, 2018Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Mardi Gras at Home at the Williams Residence
Exhibitions
Leila Williams as Queen of Mystic; 1936; The L. Kemper and Leila Moore Williams Founders Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, 79-78-L.12
January 10, 2018 to February 25, 2018This winter, the home of THNOC’s founders—General and Mrs. L. Kemper Williams—will be decorated for the Carnival season.
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.
November 18, 2017 to February 25, 2018THNOC will host two Prospect.4 exhibitions of contemporary photography--one by the late Tony Gleaton and the other by Monique Verdin.THNOC will host two Prospect.4 exhibitions of contemporary photogra
January 1, 2018 to June 3, 2018The work, which positions ringing brass bells around the French Quarter, was the first program offered in conjunction with THNOC’s exhibition "Art of the City"
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.