An Evening with Nefertari at Café NOMA

Café NOMA 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA, United States

Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of Queen Nefertari’s Egypt. Take a private tour of the exhibition and then enjoy a multi-course dinner at Café NOMA created by Egyptian-born chef Dina Daniel of Fava Pot in Washington, DC.

First Fridays at NOMA: Queens and Goddesses

New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA

#ExploreNOMA after hours. The museum is open late night for an evening packed with musical performances, gallery tours, special pop-ups, and a full bar.

Louisiana Rainbow Iris Festival

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA

Iris lovers and gardening enthusiasts are invited to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for the annual Louisiana Rainbow Iris Festival, presented by NOMA and the Greater New Orleans Iris Society.

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.

Teen Night: Timeless Flight

Up, up, and away with NOMA’s Teen Art Council! Embark on a journey of your own at Teen Night, hosted by the TAC.

NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival

The NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival is a fun and festive event for families featuring arts & crafts, games, face painting, a petting zoo, food, drinks, sweets, music, and more.

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Queen Nefertari at Night

New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA

Queen Nefertari’s Egypt brings to life the role of Nefertari and other powerful women in ancient Egypt through 230 exceptional objects, including statues, jewelry, vases, papyrus, steles, wooden coffins, and stone sarcophagi, as well as tools and various items of daily life from the artisan village of Deir-el-Medina, home to those who created the royal tombs.

Gallery Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord

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: Blue Pigments

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.

Virtual Premiere: Rearranging the Planets

Creative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a new musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite The Planets.

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RISE for Mother Earth

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA

Mélange Dance Company’s RISE for Mother Earth takes audiences on a surreal journey through the wonders of the sea—a boundless body that inextricably connect us all—as her currents regulate our global climate and her floor holds our planet’s record of change. In this original, contemporary dance production, narrative vignettes uplift the voices of those on the frontlines of climate crisis, urging us to connect in our shared humanity and shared fate.

Studio KIDS!: Trash to Time Travel

Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.