The Garden is Free and Open to the Public, Seven Days a Week
Foreground: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Corridor Pin, Blue, 1999, Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 1991; Background: Jaume Plensa, Overflow, 2005, Robert Indiana, LOVE, Red Blue, 1966-97
NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) resumes free admission to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at 10 am on Monday, July 12. The Garden will be free and open to the public, seven days a week.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated loss of revenue, NOMA asked visitors to pay an admission fee of $5 to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which was historically free, upon the reopening of the Garden on June 1, 2020. Admission revenue from the Garden enabled the museum to recover some of the revenue lost by the pandemic closure.
“NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden celebrates the museum’s primary mission of sharing internationally renowned art and artists with the broadest possible public. We have always viewed the Garden as a point of access for visitors, enabling them to experience art set within a beautifully designed, carefully maintained landscape,” said Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director. “We are grateful to the New Orleans community for supporting the museum over the course of 2020 and into 2021, and we are delighted to be able to resume free admission to the Garden. Their dedicated support has ultimately allowed us to reinstate free admission. Please continue to visit NOMA, and visit often.”
###
About NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
The New Orleans Museum of Art, founded in 1910 by Isaac Delgado, houses more than 40,000 works of art encompassing 5,000 years of history. Works from the permanent collection, along with continuously changing special exhibitions, are on view in the museum’s 46 galleries Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. The adjoining Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden features work by more than 90 sculptures, including works from several 20thand 21st-century master sculptors. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week, 10 am to 6 pm. The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden are fully accessible to visitors with disabilities. Wheelchairs are available from the front desk. Museum admission is free on Wednesdays for Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Children 12 and under receive free admission. Teenagers (ages 13-19) receive free admission courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
For more information about NOMA, visit www.noma.org. To subscribe to NOMA’s weekly newsletter, visit www.noma.org/signup.