May 27, 2022 to August 7, 2022This showstopping display invites visitors into the sprawling dens, late-night sewing sessions, and sweaty dance rehearsals where “The Greatest Free Show on Earth” is created and re-created each year among the city’s diverse communities.
May 27, 2022 to August 28, 2022Experience New Orleans’s iconic central square through the perspective of New Orleans artist and urban planner Robert Tannen.
March 18, 2022 to July 3, 2022Come behind the scenes and get up close and personal with Vivien Leigh's Oscar statue, Elia Kazan's director's notebook, a rare recording of Jessica Tandy as the first Blanche DuBois, and seldom-exhibited materials from around the world as THNOC celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams’s iconic New Orleans play.
Dauphine Street; 1963; acrylic on cardboard by Rolland Golden (1931–2019); gift of Rolland Harve Golden, given in memory of Edith Long, 1997.64
February 8, 2022 to April 8, 2023Through 22 individual pieces, this exhibition features artists from around the world who have worked to capture and share their impressions of New Orleans’s most iconic and historic neighborhood.
Jackson Square; ca. 1965; photograph by Ralph Lincks; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1974.25.14.177
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.