Talks & Tours
Small Talk: Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas with Docent Dennis Malloy
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Small Talk: The War Effort of Roland Penrose and David Smith with Docent Harvey Orth
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Small Talk: Louise Bourgeois with Docent Cynthia Kolb
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Small Talk: Thornton Dial’s The Ninth Ward with Docent Janet Krane
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Noontime Talk: The Orléans Collection with Curator Vanessa Schmid
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy...
Small Talk: Joan Miró’s The Red Disk with Docent Elizabeth Davis
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Small Talk: Andy Warhol with Docent Rosemary Hays-Thomas
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
Small Talk: The Kunst Collection of Decorative Arts with Docent Mary Lynne Stumpf
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more...
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.
Small Talk: The Sculptures of Edgar Degas
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Noontime Talk: Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art with Curator Russell Lord
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.
Join Curator Russell Long for a discussion about the exhibition Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than sixty works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque live oak grove.