Virtual Exhibitions

A groundbreaking examination of America's perpetuation of the slave trade and New Orleans’s role as a hub of slave trading.

A look at over 20 different photographic processes and techniques represented in HNOC’s holdings, from the daguerreotype to the digital prints of today.

Experience Cajun country through the eyes of two photographers who traveled the region at a pivotal time in its history.

Explore how the picturesque scenery of Louisiana has provided the backdrop for films since the early 1900s.

Explore the history of Storyville, New Orleans's legally sanctioned prostitution district that helped give birth to jazz.

Photographs by Richard Sexton capture the essence of a complicated, often mysterious section of the country’s largest waterway.

From 1719 French banknotes to early 20th-century coins minted in New Orleans, this exhibition illustrates the history of money in America, with a special focus on Louisiana.

As one of the nation's most famous—and polarizing—figures, Andrew Jackson was the 19th-century equivalent of an American rock star.

Explore the musical legacy of New Orleans’s own Boswell Sisters, who where among the first stars of radio’s golden age.

Peer into shop windows of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Portraits of women who fought for equality, justice, and charity

The music of New Orleans is the living product of dynamic cultural interactions played out over centuries in this diverse southern port city.