The New Orleans Museum of Art is at the end of Esplanade Avenue in City Park. At 1200 acres, it's the fifth-largest municipal park in the United States. The Museum collection comprises nearly 40,000 pieces. They include European painting and sculpture from the 16th through 20th centuries, American painting and sculpture from the 18th and 19th centuries, European and American prints and drawings, photography, Asian art with an emphasis on Japanese painting of the Edo period, European and American decorative arts including one of the largest glass collections in the United States, and ethnographic art including African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Among the Museum’s special collections are the jeweled treasures by Peter Carl Fabergé, on extended loan from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation, and the Latin American Colonial Art collection.The Museum has 46 permanent collection galleries and three changing exhibition spaces. It's a very nice museum. See their web page: http://www.noma.org/nomamain.htm
by seattleite on September 10, 2000
New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
+1 504 488 2631