Talks & Tours
Public Tour of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt
Join a docent-led tour of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 pm. These tours are free with your admission to this special exhibition, but do have capacity...
Gallery Talk with Mel Buchanan
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
CreativeMornings New Orleans with Hannah Chalew
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsCreativeMornings New Orleans returns to NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts with a program featuring artist Hannah Chalew.
Gallery Talk with Joseph Darensbourg
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Pass It On Open Mic & Showcase: Queens Carved in Time
In conjunction with Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, Pass It On hosts its monthly open mic and showcase at NOMA in the courtyard featuring artist John T. Scott’s Spirit Gates.
Gallery Talk
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Gallery Talk with Melinda Nelson-Hurst
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Gallery Talk: Pedro Reyes and Carol Bove
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Lecture with Kara Cooney: Women and Power in Ancient Egypt
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsIn this lecture, Dr. Kara Cooney, author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, addresses questions of ancient social inequalities and how women negotiated their limited leadership roles. How was their power expressed when regularly cloaked by a man’s dominance? Were they able to rule “behind the throne”? How much of this ancient reality still touches us today?
Gallery Talk: Beauford Delaney
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Gallery Talk with Casey Delmont
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Ancient Egypt in New Orleans: A Community Conversation
In conjunction with the exhibition Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, museologist Erika Witt leads a community conversation to explore how ancient Egypt is recognized in different aspects of New Orleans’s culture. Featured panelists are experts in history, spiritualism, and iconography, and the group will discuss how resonances of ancient Egypt can be found in the daily life, work, and cultural activities of New Orleanians.