Author: David

The lobby of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans’ headquarters, in the Leeds-Davis Building at 923 Tchoupitoulas St., is devoted to a museum-style exhibit explaining, according to the title wall, “the greatest architecture museum of all – the streets of New Orleans.” From the colonial era to midcentury modern, creole cottages through shotguns to… Read more

Now is the time to renew your local museum membership, or join if you’re not already a part of one of those support communities.   First and maybe most important, a museum membership supports your favorite institution’s mission. Curators, archivists, historians, educators, registrars, catalogers, preparators, front-of-house staff, and other museum professionals are those who craft gallery experiences, plan… Read more

“Sèvres Magnifique: French Porcelain from the Collection of Thomas B. Lemann” is now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The journey the objects in the exhibit made into NOMA’s permanent collection spanned several decades. The pieces have been on display at the museum a few times, dating back to the 1980s, but… Read more

I’d been planning to add the Maison Dupuy to the historic hotels section of themuseumgoer.com sometime in the next few weeks, but I’ve hit pause because of the recent news that the property – which, built in the early 1970s and surrounded by centuries-old neighbors, isn’t really all that historic – was getting new ownership. … Read more

The exhibit “The First Piano Professors and Lost Music of Early New Orleans” is now on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Co-curated by musician and archivist John Davis and the museum’s music curator David Kunian, the exhibit fills two big rooms with a story driven largely by sheet music.  In the days before… Read more

Located in a historic neighborhood and sharing an entrance atrium with the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri,  tells the stories of its neighborhood (in introductory displays in the atrium), its city (home of the Monarchs), and the ballplayers across the country who labored under segregation but still found… Read more

The new History Channel documentary miniseries World War II with Tom Hanks launches with three back-to-back episodes at 7 p.m. (Central) on May 25, Memorial Day. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, which collaborated with the network on the series, hosted an advance screening and panel discussion May 20 that offered a sneak peek… Read more

“Amongst Ourselves: Resisting Slavery at Whitney Plantation,” with wonderful graphic illustrations by Langston Allston, is a collaboration between the Whitney and Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans faculty, students, and graduate students. “Amongst Ourselves” also draws on “Freedom on the Move,” a digital database of fugitives from North American… Read more

A photograph from 1952, displayed in a section of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s permanent galleries, shows a group of people posing on the front steps of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. They are members of the New Americans Social Club — European Holocaust survivors who’d made their way to new lives… Read more

A heavy cruiser, the USS New Orleans participated in nearly every major World War II battle in the Pacific. As demonstrated in the new changing exhibition “Come Back Fighting: USS New Orleans at War” at the National WWII Museum, her combat history tells just part of the story. Christened in 1933 at Brooklyn Navy Yard… Read more