See also: List of museums in 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 for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries.
| Name | Neighborhood | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Historic house | Part of the Louisiana State Museum, 1850s middle class period home | ||
| Algiers Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum | Art | website, includes outdoor mixed-media statuary, poured concrete sculptural forms, and a small museum housing music memorabilia and works by noted self-taught artists | |
| Ethnic | History of Italian Americans in the Southeast and their contributions, operated by the American Italian Cultural Center | ||
| Military | Official museum of the Louisiana National Guard located in the Jackson Barracks Complex, formerly known as the Jackson Barracks Military Museum | ||
| French Quarter | Natural history | Insect information and live insects | |
| African American | Cultural traditions and institutions of African-American culture in New Orleans, in particular Mardi Gras Indians, Jazz Funerals and Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs | ||
| French Quarter | Historic house | 1860s period home with collection of antique dolls and tea pots | |
| French Quarter | History | Operated by the Louisiana State Museum, site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer ceremonies in 1803, exhibits on the history and culture of Louisiana and its ethnic groups | |
| Central Business District | Military | History and artifacts from the Confederate States of America and the American Civil War | |
| Central Business District | Art | Multi-disciplinary contemporary and performing arts center | |
| Degas House | Historic house | website, house where artist Edgar Degas resided and worked from 1872 to 1873 | |
| Fort | Currently closed, decommissioned 19th-century United States fort | ||
| Diboll Art Gallery | Art | website, part of Loyola University New Orleans, also known as the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery and Visual Arts Center | |
| French Quarter | Historic house | 1850s period house | |
| French Quarter | Amusement | Part of Arnaud's restaurant, collection of Carnival court gowns, costumes and other memorabilia | |
| French Quarter | Historic house | 1830-1860s period Creole house | |
| French Quarter | Multiple | Includes museum with exhibits about the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region, and the 1940-1950s period Williams Residence | |
| Historic house | website, Victorian-period house, open for tours by appointment, features a dollhouse museum | ||
| House of Dance and Feathers | Lower Ninth Ward | Culture | website, artwork, history, and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians, local Social Aid and Pleasure, Skull & Bones Gangs, and Baby Dolls |
| Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans | French Quarter | Ethnic | website, history of the Irish in the city |
| French Quarter | Culture | French Quarter Visitor Center, history and traditions of the city and the delta region | |
| Historic house | 20th century estate and gardens | ||
| City Park | Children's | website | |
| French Quarter | Multiple | Operates The Cabildo, New Orleans Mint, The Presbytère, 1850 House and Madame John's Legacy | |
| Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum | Lower Ninth Ward | Local history | website, history of the Lower 9th Ward through oral histories and exhibits |
| French Quarter | Historic house | Operated by the Louisiana State Museum, late 18th century Colonial home | |
| Amusement | Mardi Gras floats | ||
| Art | website, exhibits of African Diasporan fine art | ||
| Le Musée de f.p.c. | Tremé | Historic house | website, mid 19th-century house with a focus on free people of color living in New Orleans |
| Museum of Death | French Quarter | History | website, includes body bags, coffins, skulls, antique mortician apparatuses, crime photos |
| Food | Part of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, features history of mixed drinks and bartending memorabilia | ||
| Religious | Shrine and museum about Francis Xavier Seelos, part of St. Mary's Assumption Church | ||
| Central Business District | Military | Formerly the National D-Day Museum. Focuses on the United States' contribution to victory in World War II and the Battle of Normandy website | |
| Maritime | Operated by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, reconstructed lighthouse and museum | ||
| Tremé | African American | African American art, history and culture | |
| French Quarter | Religious | History and folklore of rituals, zombies, gris-gris, Voodoo Queens | |
| New Orleans Fire Department Museum | Firefighting | Located in the Washington Avenue firehouse, open by appointment[1] [2] | |
| French Quarter | Numismatic | Part of the Louisiana State Museum, features a jazz museum and music venue that is part of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park | |
| Art | Collections include French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, Besthoff Sculpture Garden | ||
| French Quarter | Medical | website, includes 19th-century pharmacy and medical artifacts, a 19th-century physician's study, a spectacle collection, homeopathic remedies, dental instruments and medical memorabilia | |
| Art | Part of the Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University, decorative arts collection of crafts produced at Newcomb College from the late 19th through the early 20th century | ||
| Central Business District | Art | Visual arts and culture of the American South | |
| French Quarter | Religious | 18th century convent | |
| Historic house | Early 19th century period house | ||
| French Quarter | Historic Site | Part of the Louisiana State Museum, features changing exhibits of New Orleans history and culture | |
| Central City | Food | Exhibits include The Museum of the American Cocktail, food and traditions of Louisiana, sugar, TV food pioneer Lena Richards, Acadian history and culture, fishing and natural history of the Gulf of Mexico, corn, community cookbooks | |
| University of New Orleans Art Galleries | Art | website, UNO St. Claude Gallery and UNO Lakefront Campus Fine Arts Gallery | |