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Currently on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the photography exhibit “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” follows the movement of Africans into and out of American enslavement. In large-scale black-and-white landscape photos, Bey travels the Richmond (Va.) Slave Trail, Louisiana plantations, and the final miles of the Underground Railroad in Ohio – a story that Read more

The September 21 Museumgoer feature in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate checks out(!) three library-card programs that offer free admission to many great museums across New Orleans and around Louisiana. Read it here. Listen to a Museumgoer Podcast episode about the programs here. Some photos of the featured museums are below. From the story: Read more

The September 7 Museumgoer story in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate visits the Old Ursuline Convent Museum exhibit “Rooted in Faith: Pope Leo XIV’s Louisiana Lineage,” which includes a family tree and reproductions of the documents Sarah Waits, research archivist for the Office of Archives and Records at the Archdiocese of New Orleans, used Read more

After 15 years on view, the Presbytere exhibition “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond” is undergoing renovations to update its multimedia displays (with the Solomon Group supporting staff curators) and to broaden and extend the city’s recovery timeline into the present. “We need to do the normal refresh you do from infrastructure aging over 15 years,” Read more

The July 20 Musemgoer story for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate visits the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience changing exhibit “Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans,” on view through January 25.  The exhibit’s timeline starts in 1855 in the wake of Yellow Fever, an indiscriminate orphan-maker. The institution defied Read more

The Sunday (July 6) Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the New Orleans Museum of Art to explore the photography exhibit “Nicolas Floc’h:  Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed,” which features images that offer an exploration of water, color, and environmental storytelling – all centered on and below the surface of the Mississippi River Read more

The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with the inception of an oral history project called NOLA Resistance, an effort to record the voices of participants in the city’s mid-century contributions to the national Civil Rights Movement.  Those contributions were substantial; the oral histories, Read more

The decade-plus quest by Stephen E. Ambrose and Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller to navigate the National D-Day Museum, an inaugural incarnation, toward its opening 25 years ago next week was a story of tireless networking, courting of political support both locally and nationally, and fundraising, the retelling of which “gets boring to people,” Mueller said, Read more

The National WWII Museum exhibition “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign,” on view through January 11, 2026, examines the important but little-known action that occurred from June 1942 to August 1943.  The Aleut peoples who inhabited the islands before the war are part of the exhibit’s story. They called their territory the “Cradle of Read more