Where New Orleans – July 2019

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rab a free ticket in the welcome

center, where an interactive

map puts three centuries of

local architecture at your

ngertips, then head upstairs to the French

Quarter Galleries, which chart the area’s

evolution through a variety of groupings.

Among the highlights is a copy of the

1727 Code Noir, a miniature of Clark Mills’

sculpture of Andrew Jackson on horseback,

a chess set owned by 19th-century child

prodigy Paul Morphy, a 1950 panel cover

from the Desire streetcar and an annotated

script from Tennessee Williams’ “A Street-

car Named Desire.”

e permanent display leads to a rotat-

ing exhibit space, which currently features

“Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Ka-

trina,” an overview of contemporary Cres-

cent City artists. Standouts include Gina

Phillps’ stitched portrait of Fats Domino,

Hannah Chalew’s three-dimensional street

scene and Jason Poirier’s eerily lifelike

mannequin of the late Ernie K-Doe.

Good thing there’s a courtyard café;

you’ll want to refuel before crossing the

street to explore the HNOC’s equally free

Louisiana History Galleries. http://www.hnoc.org

Where Old Meets New

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“Head

upstairs to

the French

Quarter

Galleries,

which chart

the area’s

evolution.”

20 WHERETRAVELER® NEW ORLEANS JUNE 2019

e old Vieux Carré welcomed a spanking new museum in April, with the

long-awaited arrival of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s state-of-the-art

campus at 520 Royal Street. e $38-million facility adds more than 35,000

square feet to the HNOC’s French Quarter footprint and breathes fresh life into

the circa-1816 Seignouret-Brulatour building.

SEIGNOURET-BRULATOUR BUILDING

EDUCATION GALLERIES

“ART OF THE CITY”