The 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.
Episodes
New Orleans Museum Month is an annual promotion by New Orleans & Co. that runs throughout August, offering members of participating institutions two free admissions at all of the nearly 30 other institutions for the month.
In this episode, four local museum leaders discuss the benefits of museum membership beyond Museum Month.
Links to other Museum Month coverage can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
New Orleans had the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage inAmerica because New Orleans had Yellow Fever, an indiscriminate orphan-maker. On view at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience through January 25, 2026,the changing exhibit “Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans” travels through a near-century of history.
Our guest this time is Michael Jacobs, MSJE’s collections and exhibits curator. Mi...
An in-gallery interview with Brian Piper, the New Orleans Museum of Art's Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings. We discuss the photography exhibit, on view through February 22, 2026, that explores life on -- and in -- the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Images to accompany the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A survey of some of the participants in the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement in the mid-20th century, "The Trail They Blazed" started its life as a series of oral histories, then became a traveling exhibit. It's on view at 520 Royal Street through early June 2026. Admission is free.
Images accompanying the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
In his new book "Preserving the Legacy: Creating theNational WWII Museum," Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, cofounder of the museum with historian Stephen E. Ambrose and now its president and CEO emeritus, recounts in great detail how the road to today’s massive museum campus waspocked with craters.
The decade-plus quest by Ambrose and Mueller to navigate the National D-Day Museum, an inaugural incarnation, toward its opening 25 years ago ...
A visit with Ross Patterson, curator of the exhibit "On American Shores," on view at the National WWII Museum through January 11, 2026.
Images accompanying the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
Staged at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the exhibit is on view through September 21, 2025. Our guides are co-curators Uyen Dinh and Selina McKane.
Images that accompany the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A conversation with Amanda M. Maples, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. "New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations" is on view through August 10, 2025.
The exhibit, which will tour several American and African locations once its NOMA run concludes, is a model of cross-continental collaboration. Organized by NOMA and the Musée des Civilisations ...
Marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit "Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans," on view through October 5, tells the half-century history of the local Vietnamese community.
Interview subjects are Mark Cave, senior historian and the exhibit's curator, and Candy Ellison, who designed the exhibit's interactive elements.
Images to accompany the...
The traveling exhibition is on view at the free Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus through June 20, 2025. This episode features interviews with curator Laurie Ann Farrell and Maurita Poole, executive director of the Newcomb Art Museum.
Images accompanying the conversation can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
An in-gallery interview with artist and educator Keith Duncan and Bradley Sumrall, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's curator of the collection. The topic is the new exhibition "Battle of the Bands," capturing, in paint and fabric, heroically stylized performers from 15 Historically Black College and University marching bands.
Images accompanying the podcast are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A visit to the New Orleans Jazz Museum with David Kunian, music curator. The first exhibit covers Louis Armstrong's youth in and later visits to his hometown. The second exhibit offers an overview of Louisiana's blues styles and purveyors.
Images to accompany the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com
A podcast visit to the National WWII Museum exhibit "Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II" with Cory Graff, museum curator and restoration manager.
Images accompanying the podcast can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A conversation with Joyce A. Miller, Louisiana State Museum historian and the curator of "Billy Cannon: They Called Him Legend," now on view at the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge.
Accompanying images on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
On view at the Cabildo in New Orleans through September 28, 2025, this exhibition collects more than 50 paintings, only a few of which feature the bright-blue, yellow-eyed apparition that by popular demand became artist George Rodrigue’s heraldic hound.
This podcast interview with curator and historian Joyce Miller is accompanied by photos on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A visit to the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience for interviews with Kenneth Hoffman, executive director, about the new Southern Jewish Family Research Center, and Michael Jacobs, MSJE’s collections & exhibits curator, about the new exhibit “Greetings from Main Street – Southern Jewish Postcards from Our Collection.”
Photos accompanying the interviews are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
On view at the Cabildo until May 2026, "Botanica" connects the grown world to the communities who sow, reap, etc. -- from indigenous peoples to colonizers and their descendants to the enslaved and theirs. Listen to an in-gallery interview with co-curator Rachel Breunlin, then visit themuseumgoer.com to see images that accompany the talk.
December 1 is Museum Store Sunday, and more than 2,000 shops around the world participate. Many offer discounts and in-store events while collectively raising the profile of these unique outlets for art, garments, toys, books, and the occasional shot glass. In this episode of the Museumgoer Podcast, four New Orleans museum-store managers talk about their work.
Visit the blog at themuseumgoer.com to see images of some of the items...
The singular vision of its creator, Claus Sadlier, the New Orleans Storyville Museum provides visitors an overview of the city's infamous red-light district at the turn of the 20th century. This episode of the Museumgoer Podcast enters the museum, located just a few steps from the district's historical footprint, for a walk-and-talk with Sadlier.
For images that accompany the talk, visit the blog at themuseumgoer.com.
A marquee object in the Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit "A Vanishing Bounty: Louisiana’s Coastal Environment and Culture" is a rare second edition of John James Audubon’s double-elephant folio The Birds of America.
In this episode of The Museumgoer Podcast, HNOC staffers discuss the folio and its accompanying interactive display. "A Vanishing Bounty" is one of the museum exhibits recommended to Taylor Swift and her fans, w...
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