NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (NOMA)

NOMA has more than 40,000 objects of art. The collection includes American art, of course, but also French and European art from the 16th century to the present, as well as one of the largest collections of glass art in the country, decorative art, African art, pre-Columbian art, Native American art, and Asian art (primarily Japanese paintings from the Edo period), to name a few. French painting is honored: Renoir, Courbet, Monet, Gauguin and Degas, who painted several pictures during a stay in New Orleans at his uncle's house in 1872-1873 (his mother was a planter's daughter). Paintings by Picasso, Braque, Miró, Warhol, Rodin, Giacometti complete a great aesthetic diversity that is worth the trip. There is also a café and a store on site.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. A garden has been laid out with more than 90 sculptures to discover in the middle of oaks, pines, magnolias, camellias and ponds. All these works of art were donated to NOMA by the Besthoff Foundation. These sculptures were created by famous contemporary artists such as Antoine Bourdelle, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moose, George Rickey, Joel Shapiro or George Segal, and Jean-Michel Othoniel, who created the Palais Royal metro exit in Paris. The stroll is bound to be a pleasant one! The sculpture garden is open every day from 10am to 6pm (5pm from October to March) and access is free.