Backstreet Cultural Museum
1116 Henriette Delille St, Treme, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Backstreet Cultural Museum is a small, essential museum in Tremé that preserves the traditions that make New Orleans' Black culture unlike anywhere else in America — Mardi Gras Indian suits, second-line parades, jazz funerals, and the Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs that have been the organisational backbone of the Black community since the 19th century.
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is housed in the Old US Mint — the only building in America to have served as both a US and a Confederate mint — and it tells the story of jazz from its origins in Congo Square and Storyville to its global spread, through instruments, recordings, photographs, and the kind of personal artifacts that make a music genre feel like a community.
The Cabildo
701 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Cabildo is the building where the Louisiana Purchase was signed on December 20, 1803 — the real estate deal that doubled the size of the United States, transferred 828,000 square miles from France to America for $15 million (roughly four cents an acre), and made New Orleans an American city almost by accident.
The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
The National WWII Museum is consistently ranked among the top museums in the world — and it's in New Orleans because this is where Andrew Higgins built the landing craft that carried Allied troops onto the beaches of Normandy, North Africa, and the Pacific islands.
The Presbytère
751 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Presbytère is the mirror twin of the Cabildo on the other side of St.
Explore museum in New Orleans
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.