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Address:1 Collins Diboll Cir
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tel:
(504) 488-2631
Celebrate art, life and culture with New Orleans oldest fine arts institution as it has been doing for over 90 years. With a permanent collection of over 40,000 objects valued at over $200 million, along with a beautiful sculpture garden, the New Orleans Museum of Art is a real crowd pleaser.
The museum's collection has notable strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, African and Japanese works. The museum showcases works of art from ancient to modern times including paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts surveying the development of Western Civilization from the pre-Christian era to the present.
Edgar Degas, the famous French Impressionist, visited his family not 20 blocks from the museum's location over 125 years ago, and the works he created there are on display. Other master's on display include Picasso, Braque, Dufy, Miro and many others.
The New Orleans Museum of Art unique collection - Arts of the Americas - surveys the cultural heritage of North, Central and South America from the pre-Columbian period through the Spanish Colonial era. The collection provides a rich display of objects from Mayan culture including paintings and sculpture from Cuzco, the Spanish capital of Peru. A suite of period rooms feature 18th and 19th century furniture and decorative art. Temporary exhibitions are also on display such as "Blue Winds Dancing", a collection of over 400 objects of Native American art.
The five-acre sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art is one of the most important in the United States with 50 sculptures beautifully landscaped among footpaths, lagoons and Spanish-moss laden 200-year old oak, pines, magnolias and camellias, with pedestrian bridges providing a most beautiful spot. Some sculptors include Antoine Bourdelle, Henry Moore, Jacques Lipchitz and Louise Bourgeois.
The New Orleans Museum of Art is located in City Park, convenient to the City Park/Metairie Road exit of 1-10, and may be reached by street car from the Carrollton line extending from the Canal Street line, or by public bus via the Carrollton Avenue or Esplanade Avenue lines of the RTA.
From New Orleans Museum of Art - Louisiana:
The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city's oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects, valued in excess of $200 million. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, African and Japanese works, continues to grow. The five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA is one of the most important sculpture installations in the United States, with 50 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.