Backstreet Cultural Museum
Backstreet Cultural Museum is a museum in Louisiana, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the north-northwest, 3.2 miles off. The nearest named place is New Orleans African American Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, that emphasizes the African American history of New Orleans, second lines, Jazz funerals, and the Mardi Gras Indians
Wikidata Q4839767, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1999
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 3.9 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 0.4 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 25.1 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cabrini Playground: 0.2 mi
- Louis Armstrong Park: 0.3 mi
- Latrobe Park: 0.5 mi
- New Place de France: 0.5 mi
- Washington Square: 0.5 mi
- Louis Armstrong Statue: 0.2 mi
- Louis Armstrong Statue: 0.2 mi
- Place de Henriette Delille: 0.4 mi
- General Francisco Morazan Statue: 0.5 mi
- Joan of Arc: 0.5 mi
- Louis Armstrong Park Entrance: 0.2 mi
- Congo Square: 0.3 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.3 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.3 mi
- Lalaurie Mansion: 0.3 mi
- French Opera: 0.2 mi
- Charles "Buddy" Bolden: 0.2 mi
- Sidney Bechet: 0.2 mi
- Mahalia Jackson: 0.2 mi
- Brass Band: 0.2 mi
- New Orleans African American Museum: 0.2 mi
- Haunted Museum & Voodoo Pharmacy: 0.2 mi
- Backstreet Cultural Museum: 0.3 mi
- New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum: 0.4 mi
- BK Historic House and Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 7.8 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 15.4 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 15.9 mi
- CPRT Tracts 28 & 29: 21.8 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 22.5 mi
- Fazendeville: 4.8 mi
- Frenier: 23.7 mi
- Shell Beach: 24.1 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 24.2 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 4.3 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 19.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Backstreet Cultural Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | NNW 329° | 13 m | 3.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:30 | 20:05 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:27 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 06:53 | 16:29 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 57 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 72 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Terrytown 3S, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/345273213
Day trips start here
- New Orleans · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Central Business District · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Tremé · 1 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Bywater · 2 mi
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