Guidebook for Things to Do
Activities and Entertainment
The Steamboat Natchez has Dinner Jazz and Daytime jazz cruises that run daily, year round, in the style of authentic steamboats in New Orleans for centuries!
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Bateau à vapeur Natchez
400 Toulouse StThe Steamboat Natchez has Dinner Jazz and Daytime jazz cruises that run daily, year round, in the style of authentic steamboats in New Orleans for centuries!
The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world.
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The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine StThe National WWII Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world.
The French Quarter is the city’s historic heart, famous for its vibrant nightlife and colorful buildings with cast-iron balconies. Crowd-pleasing Bourbon Street features jazz clubs, Cajun eateries and raucous bars serving potent cocktails. Quieter streets lead to the French Market, with gourmet food and local crafts, and to Jackson Square where street performers entertain in front of soaring St. Louis Cathedral.
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Vieux carré français
The French Quarter is the city’s historic heart, famous for its vibrant nightlife and colorful buildings with cast-iron balconies. Crowd-pleasing Bourbon Street features jazz clubs, Cajun eateries and raucous bars serving potent cocktails. Quieter streets lead to the French Market, with gourmet food and local crafts, and to Jackson Square where street performers entertain in front of soaring St. Louis Cathedral.
A 1,300-acre public park that features a walking trail, a mini amusement park, a golf course, a playground, and a cafe.
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City Park
1 Palm DrA 1,300-acre public park that features a walking trail, a mini amusement park, a golf course, a playground, and a cafe.
Located on the Mississippi River adjacent to the French Quarter Audubon Aquarium of the Americas immerses you in an underwater world. The colors of the Great Maya Reef come alive in our walk-through tunnel, while our penguins and Southern sea otters are visitor favorites. Touch a sting ray, feed a parakeet, and marvel at our gigantic sharks and rays in the 400,000-gallon Gulf of Mexico Exhibit. Watch for sea turtles throughout the Aquarium as coordinator of the Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program, we prepare many of them for release to the wild.
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Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
1 Canal StLocated on the Mississippi River adjacent to the French Quarter Audubon Aquarium of the Americas immerses you in an underwater world. The colors of the Great Maya Reef come alive in our walk-through tunnel, while our penguins and Southern sea otters are visitor favorites. Touch a sting ray, feed a parakeet, and marvel at our gigantic sharks and rays in the 400,000-gallon Gulf of Mexico Exhibit. Watch for sea turtles throughout the Aquarium as coordinator of the Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program, we prepare many of them for release to the wild.
Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, located in the U.S. Custom House on Canal Street, encourages you to use all five senses as you explore North America’s largest museum devoted to insects and their relatives. You’ll discover why insects are the building blocks of all life on our planet and along the way, you’ll be shrunk to bug size; wander through a mysterious Louisiana swamp; join the active audience of an awards show for bugs, by bugs; and be captivated by thousands of butterflies in an Asian garden. Voted "A top museum for you and your kids” by CNN.com, 2009.
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Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium
1 Canal StAudubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, located in the U.S. Custom House on Canal Street, encourages you to use all five senses as you explore North America’s largest museum devoted to insects and their relatives. You’ll discover why insects are the building blocks of all life on our planet and along the way, you’ll be shrunk to bug size; wander through a mysterious Louisiana swamp; join the active audience of an awards show for bugs, by bugs; and be captivated by thousands of butterflies in an Asian garden. Voted "A top museum for you and your kids” by CNN.com, 2009.
A park full of musical and cultural history that contains the historic Congo Square where enslaved Africans were held.
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Parc Louis Armstrong
701 N Rampart StA park full of musical and cultural history that contains the historic Congo Square where enslaved Africans were held.
Traditional coffee shops that serves beignets, which are just square French-style doughnuts.
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Cafe Du Monde French Market
800 Decatur StTraditional coffee shops that serves beignets, which are just square French-style doughnuts.
Provide visitors a behind-the-scenes look of the work behind the widely famous Mardi Gras.
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Mardi Gras World
1380 Port of New Orleans Pl Provide visitors a behind-the-scenes look of the work behind the widely famous Mardi Gras.
Musée pour Enfants de la Louisiane
15 Henry Thomas DrThe Backstreet Cultural Museum is a pillar in the Tremé community where second-line parades begin and end, the North Side Skull and Bone Gang and Mardi Gras Indians congregate on Mardi Gras day. The museum is active in Tremé and promotes art and culture as important to the neighborhood’s identity and future. The Backstreet Cultural Museum educates diverse constituencies about New Orleans’ African American heritage. Each year, the museum attracts visitors from around the country and the globe.
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Backstreet Cultural Museum
1531 Henriette Delille StThe Backstreet Cultural Museum is a pillar in the Tremé community where second-line parades begin and end, the North Side Skull and Bone Gang and Mardi Gras Indians congregate on Mardi Gras day. The museum is active in Tremé and promotes art and culture as important to the neighborhood’s identity and future. The Backstreet Cultural Museum educates diverse constituencies about New Orleans’ African American heritage. Each year, the museum attracts visitors from around the country and the globe.
The St. Louis Cathedral is one of New Orleans' most notable landmarks. Few cities in the world are so identified by a building as is New Orleans. This venerable building, its triple steeples towering above its historic neighbors, the Cabildo and the Presbytere - looks down benignly on the green of the Square and General Andrew Jackson on his bronze horse and on the block-long Pontalba Buildings with their lacy ironwork galleries. Truly, this is the heart of old New Orleans.
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Cathédrale Saint-Louis
615 Pere Antoine AlleyThe St. Louis Cathedral is one of New Orleans' most notable landmarks. Few cities in the world are so identified by a building as is New Orleans. This venerable building, its triple steeples towering above its historic neighbors, the Cabildo and the Presbytere - looks down benignly on the green of the Square and General Andrew Jackson on his bronze horse and on the block-long Pontalba Buildings with their lacy ironwork galleries. Truly, this is the heart of old New Orleans.
Founded in 1789 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, St. Louis #1 is New Orleans’ oldest active City of the Dead. Ornate, crumbling, and entrancing, St. Louis #1 is eerily beautiful, even in the daytime. This New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of the notorious Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau as well as many other colorful New Orleanians. Venture inside the vault lined walls of this historic New Orleans cemetery with your French Quarter Phantoms master story teller / local historian and visit the New Orleans Musicians’ Tomb and the future tomb of Nicholas Cage.
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Cemetery Tour
718 N Rampart StFounded in 1789 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, St. Louis #1 is New Orleans’ oldest active City of the Dead. Ornate, crumbling, and entrancing, St. Louis #1 is eerily beautiful, even in the daytime. This New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of the notorious Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau as well as many other colorful New Orleanians. Venture inside the vault lined walls of this historic New Orleans cemetery with your French Quarter Phantoms master story teller / local historian and visit the New Orleans Musicians’ Tomb and the future tomb of Nicholas Cage.
Trampoline Park that's great for kids of all ages
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DEFY New Orleans (Previously Sector6 Extreme Air Sports)
612 Distributors RowTrampoline Park that's great for kids of all ages
Les boutiques de la brasserie Jax
600 Decatur StStudio BE is a 35,000 sq. ft warehouse in the Bywater neighborhood that has been transformed into a art studio by local artist Brandan Odums .
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Studio Be
2941 Royal StStudio BE is a 35,000 sq. ft warehouse in the Bywater neighborhood that has been transformed into a art studio by local artist Brandan Odums .
New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), the city’s oldest fine arts institution, opened on December 16, 1911 with only 9 works of art. Today, the museum hosts an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the top art museums in the South.
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Musée d'Art de La Nouvelle-Orléans
1 Collins Diboll CirNew Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), the city’s oldest fine arts institution, opened on December 16, 1911 with only 9 works of art. Today, the museum hosts an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the top art museums in the South.
Your visit to New Orleans’ historic French Quarter would not be complete without a stop at Jackson Square, which is where you will find the Cabildo. This elegant Spanish colonial building neighbors St. Louis Cathedral and houses many rare artifacts of America’s history. In commemoration of the city’s 300th anniversary, the Louisiana State Museum debuted a new exhibition, We Love You, New Orleans!, celebrating people, places, and things that are quintessentially New Orleans including Sidney Bechet’s saxophone, a Mardi Gras Indian suit, memorabilia from Pontachartrain Park, and a K&B sign, among other things.
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The Cabildo
701 Chartres StYour visit to New Orleans’ historic French Quarter would not be complete without a stop at Jackson Square, which is where you will find the Cabildo. This elegant Spanish colonial building neighbors St. Louis Cathedral and houses many rare artifacts of America’s history. In commemoration of the city’s 300th anniversary, the Louisiana State Museum debuted a new exhibition, We Love You, New Orleans!, celebrating people, places, and things that are quintessentially New Orleans including Sidney Bechet’s saxophone, a Mardi Gras Indian suit, memorabilia from Pontachartrain Park, and a K&B sign, among other things.
New Orleans’ Preservation Hall was established in 1961 to honor one of America’s truest art forms – Traditional New Orleans Jazz. Operating as a music venue, a touring band, and a non-profit organization, Preservation Hall continues its mission today as a cornerstone of New Orleans music and culture. Situated in the heart of the French Quarter on St. Peter Street, the Preservation Hall venue presents intimate, acoustic New Orleans Jazz concerts over 350 nights a year featuring ensembles from a current collective of 100+ local master practitioners. On any given night, audiences bear joyful witness to the evolution of this venerable and living tradition.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
726 St PeterNew Orleans’ Preservation Hall was established in 1961 to honor one of America’s truest art forms – Traditional New Orleans Jazz. Operating as a music venue, a touring band, and a non-profit organization, Preservation Hall continues its mission today as a cornerstone of New Orleans music and culture. Situated in the heart of the French Quarter on St. Peter Street, the Preservation Hall venue presents intimate, acoustic New Orleans Jazz concerts over 350 nights a year featuring ensembles from a current collective of 100+ local master practitioners. On any given night, audiences bear joyful witness to the evolution of this venerable and living tradition.
DJs spin in a gleaming casino nightclub with a 53-ft. night-sky ceiling, ice bar & go-go dancers.
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Masquerade Nightclub
8 Canal StDJs spin in a gleaming casino nightclub with a 53-ft. night-sky ceiling, ice bar & go-go dancers.
Rock- & blues-themed chain with Southern dishes such as po' boys & jambalaya, plus live music.
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House Of Blues
225 Decatur StRock- & blues-themed chain with Southern dishes such as po' boys & jambalaya, plus live music.
Hangout with thumping music, rowdy crowds, a "fire fountain", & deals on Hurricanes & other drinks.
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Razzoo Bar & Patio
511 Bourbon StHangout with thumping music, rowdy crowds, a "fire fountain", & deals on Hurricanes & other drinks.
A range of acts from funk & blues to brass bands takes the stage at this longtime live music bar.
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Blue Nile
532 Frenchmen StA range of acts from funk & blues to brass bands takes the stage at this longtime live music bar.
Upbeat music club hosts a diverse, jazz-oriented lineup on 3 stages & offers eats, drinks & dancing.
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The Dragon's Den
508 Frenchmen StUpbeat music club hosts a diverse, jazz-oriented lineup on 3 stages & offers eats, drinks & dancing.
Live jazz & upscale Creole fare in an intimate, brick-walled space that dates back to the 1800s.
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Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro
626 Frenchmen StLive jazz & upscale Creole fare in an intimate, brick-walled space that dates back to the 1800s.
Modern, upscale club made from parts of a former Eiffel Tower eatery with hip-hop & Latin nights
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Eiffel Society
Modern, upscale club made from parts of a former Eiffel Tower eatery with hip-hop & Latin nights
Weathered bar & intimate jazz venue hosting live acts on a tiny stage for a standing-room crowd.
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The Spotted Cat Music Club
623 Frenchmen StWeathered bar & intimate jazz venue hosting live acts on a tiny stage for a standing-room crowd.
Lively, long-running bar & lounge hosting live music in a funky, colorful setting.
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Kermit's Treme Mother in Law Lounge
1500 North Claiborne AvenueLively, long-running bar & lounge hosting live music in a funky, colorful setting.
Upscale, retro-tinged jazz lounge in the Royal Sonesta Hotel with drinks, bar food & a courtyard.
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The Jazz Playhouse
300 Bourbon StUpscale, retro-tinged jazz lounge in the Royal Sonesta Hotel with drinks, bar food & a courtyard.
Jazz & down-home Creole eats in a somewhat smoky, tucked-away venue well off the beaten track.
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Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club
1931 St Claude AveJazz & down-home Creole eats in a somewhat smoky, tucked-away venue well off the beaten track.
Cool performing arts center with live jazz performances & an archive, plus a modern cocktail bar.
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New Orleans Jazz Market
1436 Oretha Castle Haley BlvdCool performing arts center with live jazz performances & an archive, plus a modern cocktail bar.