Family Travel

Museum Day Live 2017

Here are the area museums that are free this Saturday! Click here to get your tickets today!

 
Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium
423 Canal Street, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 10 am‐4:30 pm
located in the U.S. Custom House on Canal Street, encourages you to use all five senses as you explore North America’s largest museum devoted to insects and their relatives.
 
Longue Vue House and Gardens
7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 10 am‐5 pm

Longue Vue House and Gardens is a multifaceted historic estate featuring a world-class house museum and eight acres of stunning gardens that include an unparalleled collection of Louisiana irises in New Orleans and an interactive Discovery Garden for children of all ages.

New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
724 Dumaine St., New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 10 am‐6 pm
A unique cross between the actual history of Voodoo in New Orleans and the more common Hoodoo folklore that accompanies it. 
 
New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
1 Collins Diboll Circle,City Park, New Orleans

Museum Day Hours of Operation: 10 am‐5 pm
New Orleans’ oldest fine arts institution hosts an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow.

 
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp Street, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 10 am‐5 pm
The mission of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is to broaden the knowledge, understanding, interpretation, and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South through its events, permanent collections, changing exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and research.

Southern Food and Beverage Museum and The Museum of the American Cocktail
1504 Oretha C. Haley Boulevard, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 11 am‐5:30 pm
A nonprofit living history museum dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of the food, drink and the related culture of the South.

The Historic New Orleans Collection
533 Royal Street, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 9:30 am‐4:30 pm

A museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region.

The National World War II Museum
945 Magazine Street, New Orleans
Museum Day Hours of Operation: 9 am‐5 pm
An unforgettable way to experience World War II—from industrial efforts on the Home Front to the combat experience of the American servicemember abroad. Offering a compelling blend of sweeping narrative and poignant personal detail, the Museum features immersive exhibits, multimedia experiences, and an expansive collection of artifacts and first-person oral histories to take visitors inside the story of the war: why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today.

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