Christmas Eve Holiday Hours

The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 24 from 10 am to 3 pm.

Closed for Christmas

NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Wednesday, December 25, in observance of Christmas.

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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.

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Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour

Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on eleven acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon.

Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curator Russell Lord

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by photographer Tina Freeman.

NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program

Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for January is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Picador.

Gallery Talk: Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on Ancestors in Stone

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator for African Art, for a discussion about the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.