THNOC, the Williams Research Center, and all galleries are closed today.

Royal Street Campus and Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Williams Research Center Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Generally, the holidays observed will be New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Mardi Gras days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday), Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

Current Exhibitions

Exhibitions | Monday, December 2, 2024 (closed)

  • P.6 New Orleans Logo
    Prospect.6: Gesture to Home
    November 2, 2024

    New Orleans’s arts triennial Prospect.6 will showcase original work by the prominent Haitian-born artist Didier William.

  • 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.

  • 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.