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The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region of the United States. It is located in New Orleans' French Quarter.
The museum works in close collaboration with other local museums, especially The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana State Museum, in developing its special exhibitions. Special exhibitions in the past have included the treasures of Tutankhamun 's tomb, relics of Alexander the Great and his times, artifacts from the Louisiana ...
This list of museums in New Orleans, Louisiana contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
The museum also includes the Museum Store and the Center for Southern Craft and Design. The museum's location is across the street from the National World War II Museum and the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. The three institutions anchor an arts district serving local residents and over 11 million visitors to New Orleans. [1]
The Historic New Orleans Collection; J. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve; L. ... New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum; New Orleans Jazz Museum;
Greater New Orleans: Multiple: Changing exhibits of art, history and science, located in City Hall [52] Slidell Mardi Gras Museum: Slidell: St. Tammany: Greater New Orleans: Amusement: Accessed through the Slidell Museum, feature Carnival memorabilia including dresses, costumes, scepters, goblets and throws and historical scrapbooks [53 ...
Jupiter and Io by Correggio, one of the few paintings to leave the Orleans Collection before the French Revolution.(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700 and his death in 1723. [1]
Its Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection is on long-term loan at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [13] ... New Orleans Museum of Art, 1993 ISBN 0894940406