Archive | September, 2010

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic building within the Vieux Carre Historic District, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum showcases its extensive collection and provides interpretive educational programs to present and preserve the rich history of pharmacy and healthcare in Louisiana; past and present. The Museum also highlights the role of [...]

Musée Conti Wax Museum & The Art of Wax Sculpture Founded in 1963, this 3rd generation, family owned and operated business is a New Orleans treasure chest of history, legend and scandal. Unlike other wax museums, The Musée Conti Wax Museum tells the story of one city alone, and what a story it is! From [...]

The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion showcases essential tools of the war effort, including the famous Higgins landing craft. More than 20,000 boats were designed and built in New Orleans and used in all the amphibious landings of World War II. Dwight Eisenhower credited these boats with winning the war for the Allies. Other artifacts include a [...]

Louisiana’s culture often seems to have sprung from its fertile soil. Out of the rich Louisiana sugar fields, New Orleans received a gift of lasting culture in early 1910, when sugar broker Isaac Delgado offered the city $150,000 to build a “temple of art for rich and poor alike” in City Park. The neo-classical, Beaux [...]

Leading the transformation of New Orleans’ downtown Warehouse District into the vibrant cultural hub it is today is the Contemporary Arts Center. Since 1976, the center has been the Warehouse Arts Distric’s focal point and a home to bold experiments in painting, theatre, music, performance art, dance, photography, video, sculpture and more – all celebrating [...]

If you judge a band by the kind of musicians who like to sit in with them, then it’s clear that the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is doing a lot of things right. In coming months, the spunky, player-owned ensemble will share the stage with three very different kinds of superstars: pop songwriter Randy Newman, classical [...]