Tours
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in!
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in!
Noontime Talk: Curator Mel Buchanan on Decorative Arts
Join Mel Buchanan, the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a tour of NOMA's newly reimagined decorative arts galleries on the second floor. Noontime Talks are casual discussions led by curators or artists scheduled throughout the year. For more information, call 504.658.4100.
Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
Due to a hurricane warning in metro New Orleans, NOMA and the Sculpture Garden will be closed on Saturday, October 7. Join NOMA's docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon in October and November. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden...
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in! Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA's docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon in October and November. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak...
Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
Join Mellon Foundation Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a tour of the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography. The photographs represent the first exhibition solely devoted to nineteenth-century photograph in the eastern half of the United States.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon through mid-December. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected...
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in!
Noontime Talk: Personalities in Clay with Curator Mel Buchanan
Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a noontime talk in the decorative arts galleries for an insightful walkthrough of the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. The exhibition features more than seventy ceramics made between 1940 to the end of the twentieth century.
Noontime Talk: Personalities in Clay with Director Emeritus E. John Bullard
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. For thirty-seven years, E. John Bullard served as the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his retirement in 2010, he has actively collected American studio pottery, a portion of which is on...
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Kettle Black | Gallery Talk with E. John Bullard for Personalities in Clay | Sculpture Garden Expansion Presentation
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.