New Orleans Jazz Museum - New Orleans, LA - History Museums on Waymarking.com

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a music museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of jazz music. Originally a separate museum, the collection is now affiliated with the Louisiana State Museum.

Through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances, the music New Orleans made famous is explored in all its forms.

The collection includes the world’s largest collection of jazz instruments, prized artifacts, photographs, and ephemera. Examples of artifacts within the collection range from Louis Armstrong's first cornet to a 1917 disc of the first jazz recording ever made. It includes the world's largest collection of instruments owned and played by important figures in jazz- trumpets, cornets, trombones, clarinets and saxophones played by jazz greats such as Bix Beiderbecke, Edward "Kid" Ory, George Lewis, Sidney Bechet, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Other artifacts in the collection include some 12,000 photographs from the early days of jazz; recordings in a wide variety of formats, including over 4,000 78 rpm records that date from 1905 to the mid- 1950s, several thousand 12-inch LPs and 45 rpm records, and approximately 1,400 reel-to-reel tapes; posters, paintings and prints; hundreds of examples of sheet music from late 19th-century ragtime to popular songs of the 1940s and 1950s - many of them first editions that became jazz standards; several hundred rolls of film featuring concert and nightclub footage, funerals, parades, and festivals; hundred of pieces of relevant ephemera; and architectural fragments from important jazz venues.

The official gift shop for the Louisiana State Museum properties is the "1850 House Museum Store" located in the Lower Pontalba Building on St. Ann Street in Jackson Square.

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Theme: Jazz history Street Address: 400 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116 Food Court: no Gift Shop: no Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Sunday: 10AM – 4:30PM; Monday: Closed Cost: 8.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Medium Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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