Current Exhibitions

Exhibitions | Saturday, July 27, 2024

  • View of incarcerated women from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, West Feliciana Parish, working in a field, with a correctional officer or guard observing from horseback.
    Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
    July 19, 2024

    Learn how the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration are historically linked, and how these connections have made Louisiana the world leader in incarceration today.

  • Illustration of a pelican
    A Vanishing Bounty: Louisiana’s Coastal Environment and Culture
    June 21, 2024

    Explore the beauty and history of Louisiana's natural environment and the threats to its continued existence posed by human habitation.

  • Creole in a Red Headdress (portrait)
    Unknown Sitters
    April 5, 2024

    An interactive exhibition of unidentified portrait subjects.

  • Aerial view of Jackson Square

    Jackson Square; ca. 1965; photograph by Ralph Lincks; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1974.25.14.177

    The French Quarter Galleries
    The French Quarter Galleries explore how and why the neighborhood developed, how life has been lived here by various populations in different times, and how the legacies that remain shape our lives.