New Orleans African American Museum

The NOAAM of Art, Culture and History seeks to educate and to preserve, interpret, and promote the contributions that people of African descent have made to the development of New Orleans and Louisiana culture, as slaves and as free people of color[1] throughout the history of American slavery as well as during emancipation, Reconstruction, and contemporary times.

Permanent and temporary exhibits spotlight contemporary artists in the main house and in the former slave quarters.

Having suffered substantial roof and water damage during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the museum was restored and reopened in February 2008.

One of the museum's centerpieces is the "Louisiana-Congo: the Bertrand Donation," a collection of African beadwork, costumes, masks, textiles and musical instruments.

Other exhibits change regularly and highlight a range of works from traditional African art, to black influences and culture in modern life in New Orleans.