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NOLA.com: 50 Years after Fall of Saigon, Taking a Look at Settlement of Vietnamese in New Orleans
April 7, 2025
Contributing writer Dave Walker visited HNOC’s “Making It Home” exhibition, which explores how the Vietnamese made the city their home.
“Spotlights for [the exhibition’s] concept [of home] are a family’s recreated dining space and living room. Actual news footage of one local family’s perilous boat rescue plays on the living room’s vintage TV set. An interactive display allows visitors to track the family’s Vietnam-to-New Orleans journey. Visitors can sit at the dining table to hear individuals tell their resettlement stories. Each visitor will also receive a pamphlet containing excerpts from the many individual stories told in the exhibit.”
Dave Walker, contributing writer for the Times Picayune | NOLA.com
Explore the Exhibition
Dave Walker is the founder of TheMuseumGoer.comOpens in new tab, a digital destination for those interested in visiting museums and museum-adjacent attractions of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Read his recent blog post about Making It Home, and listen to his accompanying podcast interview with HNOC senior curator Mark Cave and interactives designer Candy Ellison, via the links below.
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