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New Orleans Museum of Art
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7 reviews for New Orleans Museum of Art
NOMA is a great regional art museum with good collections in Asian and African art. They also have scored some excellent traveling exhibits.
I will always love NOMA because as a child, it really opened my eyes to art. I climbed on their lipanzzer modern art sculpture. And fell in love with a Georgia O'Keefe landscape.
This is for the Sculpture Garden... I didn't check the museum.
Stopped by 45 mins before closing--on my way to the airport--and got gently and kindly kicked out promptly at 5pm. Nicely laid out, weird and eclectic collection. The kind of sculptures that "Museums of Modern Art" like to collect rarely tickle my fancy, but the Sculpture Garden is a good stop to kill time.
Lovely sculpture garden - lots of photo opportunities here. Saw swans even!
Can't rate the museum itself since it was closed thanks to a power outage.
We had limited time to spend here so we decided to concentrate on the galleries devoted to photography and Louisiana art, the scuplture garden, and the special exhibit of decorative glass. We greatly enjoyed our visit and definitely will return when we're back in town. The $8 admission is a bargain and probably one of the lowest we've ever paid for a museum of this class.
NOMA is an excellent place to be - it's small enough for you to really get to see EVERYTHING, but big enough for you to forget the things you've seen!
NOMA rocks b/c how beautiful the building is. C'mon! If I could, I'd get married here! Yes there are tons of French paintings and oddly enough, a modern art wing as well....but so what???
NOMA is hot when it hosts some great exhibitions!
1) Degas exhibit. NOMA already has a Degas painting in house, but to have a French Impressionist exhibit? Whoa....that's awesome.
2) Ancient Egyptian expo - wtf, this was super hella cool! The museum totally revamped itself for this exhibit - there was even a built-to-scale Egyptian burial room, complete w/ creepy lighting and scary wind gusts! On display was a mummy loaned by Tulane University and loads of artifacts....
I'm not too sure whats next for NOMA, especially post-Katrina but hopefully not many ppl will dismiss this tiny jewel.
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I feel uncultured when I go there because nothing there really excites me, but I think it may just be that nothing they have is exciting.
NOMA is, well, weak. The collections here leaves much to be desired. They house many reputable artists, but with minor works and a rather unimpressive collection. Thursdays are free with a LA ID before noon, so best to go then. Also, UNO students gett in free with a student ID. It's worth going to once, i guess, but it's really a shame that a city so infused with artistic integrity and passion is represented by this lackluster institution. Two warhols! (heh.)
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