HeyJaredThe Museumgoer podcast
A website dedicated to coverage of museums in New Orleans and the Gulf South, themuseumgoer.com features a blog, a podcast, a free newsletter, a YouTube page, and (coming soon) comprehensive, visitor-focused entries for regional museums.
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Southern University at New Orleans master of arts in museum studies program (opens the original)
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“Woke” teachers, librarians, park rangers, and museum curators are under political fire for the histories they teach. Gains made in recent years to expand the stories told in museums to incorporate more diverse communities have been threatened, as have efforts by museums to ensure their staff composition represents the diverse communities they serve. So, why would current and rising museum professionals of all backgrounds believe there’s a future where their skills and experience are again honor
“Becoming Louisiana: Borders in Motion, 1683-1814” at the Nous Foundation Gallery (opens the original)
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Today’s episode is for map people, who should navigate to the Nous Foundation Gallery at 602 Toulouse St. to catch the exhibit “Becoming Louisiana: Borders in Motion, 1683-1814” while you can. The free exhibit, which closes Sept. 30, uses wall-sized line drawings derived from historic maps of the region (from the holdings of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Library of Congress) made during the title time span. The idea is to demonstrate how the concept of “Louisiana” changed during th
“Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War” (opens the original)
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“Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War” is a traveling exhibit on view through April 18, 2027, at the National WWII Museum. A combat cartoonist, Mauldin was Ernie Pyle’s contemporary in covering World War II from the perspective of the soldiers doing the fighting. A quote from Pyle about Mauldin in the exhibit sums it up: “Mauldin’s cartoons aren’t about training camp life. They are about the men in the line – the tiny percentage of our vast army who are actually doing the dying.” The
"Influences & Architecture: How to 'read' a New Orleans Building" at the PRC (opens the original)
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The lobby of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans’ headquarters, in the Leeds-Davis Building at 923 Tchoupitoulas St., is devoted to a museum-style exhibit explaining, according to the title wall, “the greatest architecture museum of all – the streets of New Orleans.” From the colonial era to midcentury modern, creole cottages through shotguns to American townhouses and ranch houses, the lessons on how to “read” a New Orleans home explore the historic origins and organic utility of ea
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