Don’t Sweat It, We’ll Get You To Your Museum
It’s hot out there and that means it’s a great time to take your family to the museum. New Orleans offers a wide variety of exhibitions so you are guaranteed to entertain and keep everyone cool during the summer time.
New Orleans Museum Of Art (NOMA)
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is located in City Park. The museum right now marks New Orleans’ three-hundredth anniversary by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city with “Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories .”
Other current exhibitions include: “Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored,” “Lee Friedlander in Louisiana,” and “Carlos Rolón: Outside/In.”
For more information click here: https://noma.org/exhibitions/.
NOMA opened on December 16, 1911 with only 9 works of art. Today, the museum hosts an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the top art museums in the south. The five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA is one of the most important sculpture installations in the United States, with over 60 sculptures situated on a beautifully landscaped site amongst meandering footpaths, reflecting lagoons, Spanish moss-laden 200-year-old live oaks, mature pines, magnolias, camellias, and pedestrian bridges.
The Ogden Museum Of Southern Art
The Ogden is located in the Warehouse District. Currently the museum shows photographs by Doris Ulmann, a native New Yorker. She traveled through the American South from Appalachia and the Sea Islands of South Carolina to the deep South and New Orleans. Along the way, Ulmann photographed the landscape, both natural and built, and made dignified portraits of the region’s people. Her work is closely associated with the pictorialist and the social realism movements of the early 20th century.
Other current exhibitions include: “Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785 – 1802” and “The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction.”
For more information click here: https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibitions/current/.
The Ogden holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of Southern art and is recognized for its original exhibitions, public events and educational programs which examine the development of visual art alongside Southern traditions of music, literature and culinary heritage to provide a comprehensive story of the South. Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003, the Museum welcomes almost 85,000 visitors annually, and attracts diverse audiences through its broad range of programming including exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, and concerts which are all part of its mission to broaden the knowledge, understanding, interpretation and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South.
The Louisiana Children’s Museum
How about something for the little ones? The Louisiana Children’s Museum is also located in the Warehouse district. Current activities include: “Story Time,” “Toddler Time,” and “Ready Set Grow.”
For more information click here: https://www.lcm.org/events.
Since opening its doors in 1986, the Louisiana Children’s Museum has been one of the city’s premier attractions for children. The museum welcomes 147,000 visitors per year, engages children, families, caregivers, and school groups in memorable interactive experiences designed to make learning fun. The Museum’s 30,000 square feet of exhibit space and programs offer children a diverse set of activities that promote learning across many disciplines – from reading and math skills to architectural ideas and the nuances of grocery shopping – through interactive play. Whether they are learning what bones they use to ride a bike, or loading up a cargo ship in the Little Port of New Orleans exhibit, children take an active role in their own learning.
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