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New Orleans Museum of Art – Virtual Tour

New Orleans Museum of Art - Virtual Tour

New Orleans Museum of Art – Virtual Tour

The New Orleans Museum of Art was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art, initially funded through a charitable grant by local philanthropist and art collector Isaac Delgado.

Since then, the museum has undergone significant expansion and renovation. Together with crucial new art acquisitions, the New Orleans Museum of Art is one of the nation’s important fine art museums. 

The museum includes a Sculpture Garden, which features over 90 modern and contemporary sculptures set among oaks, pines, magnolias, camellias, lagoons, and a walking trail.

The museum’s collection features over 40,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of art. The furniture collection includes important examples of 18th and 19th-century American furniture and a group of 18th-century French pieces.

The museum features a comprehensive survey of French art, including works by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas from his time living with his mother’s family in New Orleans between 1871 and 1872.

The museum also includes an auditorium for film screenings, artist talks, panels, and presentations.

New Orleans Museum of Art - Virtual Tour

“Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou” by Alfred Boisseau, 1847

Highlights of the New Orleans Museum of Art

  • A collection of art photography with over 12,000 works from the beginnings of photography
  • An exhibition of local Louisiana artist’s works
  • Collections of glass, ceramics, portrait miniatures
  • Native American Art collection
  • Central American art from pre-Columbian and Spanish eras
  • Chinese ceramics
  • Japanese painting
  • Indian sculpture
  • Art from Africa, Indonesia, and the South Pacific

New Orleans Museum of Art - Virtual Tour

“Mrs. Asher B Wertheimer” by John Singer Sargent, 1898

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • Museum:         New Orleans Museum of Art
  • City:                 New Orleans
  • State:               Louisiana
  • Country:          United States
  • Established:     1911
  • Type:               Art Museum
  • Location:         One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

New Orleans Museum of Art - Virtual Tour

“Mother and Child in the Conservatory” by Mary Cassatt, 1906

New Orleans Museum of Art – Map

New Orleans Museum of Art -360 Virtual Views

New Orleans Museum of Art -360 Virtual Views

New Orleans Museum of Art -360 Virtual Views

New Orleans Museum of Art -360 Virtual Views

New Orleans Museum of Art

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New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans Museum of Art

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“The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. Art is the transforming experience.”
– Joseph Campbell

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Photo Credit: Phil Whitehouse / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Alfred Boisseau / Public domain; John Singer Sargent / Public domain; Mary Cassatt / Public domain

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