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A group of people stand in a sunlit room with wooden floors, observing a display titled Wine and Wood. The room features a large organ and a fireplace. Some people are reading the display, while others look around the space.

French Quarter Tableau

Join us for a tour of HNOC’s French Quarter Galleries and discover more than 300 years of history.

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Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Location: 520 Royal Street, Seignouret-Brulator Building, 3rd Floor
This tour is available in French upon request. To reserve, please mention your preference on our reservation form.

Join us for an insightful guided tour of HNOC’s French Quarter Galleries, featuring artifacts, objects, and artwork that reflect more than 300 years of history. On this tour, you will explore:

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Diverse communities

Discover the stories of the immigrant communities, artists, and musicians who shaped the Quarter’s unique character and culture.

An engraving of a slave auction taking place in the French Quarter.

Complex legacies

Explore the profound impacts of slavery and the enduring fight for civil rights within the neighborhood.

A vibrant, surreal painting with a woman in patterned clothing holding a fish and a kettle. A crowd of diverse people surrounds her, along with abstract elements like a clown face, pelican, and flag, set against a backdrop of buildings and swirling colors.

Everyday life

Gain insights into the daily routines, celebrations, and challenges faced by many generations of French Quarter residents.

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Contact our Visitor Services staff to reserve your group outing today.

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Group Experiences

Discover the rich history and culture of New Orleans with a private group outing from the Historic New Orleans Collection.

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Getting Here

HNOC’s museum is located at 520 Royal Street in the French Quarter, on Royal Street between Toulouse and St. Louis. Our Williams Research Center is located at 410 Chartres Street.

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Children in red shirts walk past and enter The Historic New Orleans Collection building on a sunny street. The group is accompanied by adults. The street features historic architecture with iron balconies.
An illustrated scene at the Port of New Orleans with many docked steamboats on the Mississippi River. Goods and crowds are visible in foreground.

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French Quarter Galleries

Ongoing

Explore how the French Quarter went from swampy colonial outpost to the oldest neighborhood in America’s most distinctive city.

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Antique map of a city grid with detailed plots, streets, and buildings. It includes a compass rose and features ships sailing on the river at the bottom. The layout is intricate, showcasing a geometrically organized urban plan.

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In Rolland Golden’s Sketchbook, a Changing, Timeless French Quarter

The New Orleans artist’s midcentury sketches of the Vieux Carré form a charming time capsule, showing how much has changed—and how much has stayed the same.

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The French Quarter That Made Cosimo Matassa

Before his recording studio changed the course of American popular music, Cosimo Matassa grew up in a teeming French Quarter community that no longer exists.  

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A smiling woman with curly hair poses in a white outfit and heels. Text reads Chris Owens: Electrifying One Woman Show.

Chris Owens Collection

Maracas and more from the queen of Bourbon Street

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A black and white photo of a busy outdoor art market. People are gathered along a narrow street lined with paintings displayed on easels and against the walls. Several individuals are looking at the artwork while others walk by or observe the scene.

Pops Whitesell Photographs

The artist was an important figure in the French Quarter Renaissance, an effort by artists, authors, and architects to preserve and reinvigorate life in the historic neighborhood.

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A detailed sketch depicts a historic, multi-story building with ornate iron balconies, a lamppost on the street, and a person standing in the foreground. The artwork captures an architectural essence and street scene ambiance.

Antoine’s Restaurant Collection

It’s the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States, and its archive at HNOC tells the story of a family business and its place in New Orleans history.

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Cover of Garden Legacy featuring a classical illustration of an angelic figure with wings and a flowing pink robe, perched above a column amidst greenery. The background has a decorative geometric pattern.

Garden Legacy

by Mary Louise Mossy Christovich and Roulhac Bunkley Toledano
with a foreword by S. Frederick Starr

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Cover of Creole World by Richard Sexton. Features an old, weathered building facade with a mix of colorful, peeling paint. A gated window is prominent, along with text detailing the books focus on New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean.

Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere

by Richard Sexton
with essays by Jay D. Edwards and John H. Lawrence
 

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Historical painting depicting the founding era of New Orleans. The scene includes sailors, Indigenous people, and European settlers alongside a ship. The title, New Orleans, the Founding Era, appears at the top in English and French.

New Orleans, the Founding Era

edited by / édité par Erin M. Greenwald
translated by / traduit par Henry Colomer

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