New Orleans African American Museum
New Orleans African American Museum is a museum in Louisiana, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Laborde Mountain stands 13 m to the north-northwest, 3.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Backstreet Cultural Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. San Bernardo Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
The New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM) is a museum in New Orleans, Louisiana's visiting Tremé neighborhood, the oldest-surviving black community in the United States. The NOAAM of Art, Culture and History seeks to educate and to preserve, interpret, and promote the contributions that people of African descent have made to the development of New Orleans and Louisiana culture, as slaves and as free people of color throughout the history of American slavery as well as during emancipation, Reconstruction, and contemporary times.
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Wikidata Q7010684, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the San Bernardo Scenic Byway
- 4.0 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 0.6 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 25.1 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Collapsed Observarion Deck · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Louis Armstrong Statue: 0.3 mi
- Louis Armstrong Statue: 0.3 mi
- General Francisco Morazan Statue: 0.5 mi
- Benito Juarez Statue: 0.6 mi
- Place de Henriette Delille: 0.6 mi
- Louis Armstrong Park: 0.3 mi
- Cabrini Playground: 0.3 mi
- Washington Square: 0.6 mi
- Latrobe Park: 0.7 mi
- New Place de France: 0.7 mi
- Louis Armstrong Park Entrance: 0.4 mi
- Congo Square: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.4 mi
- Bourbon Street: 0.5 mi
- Basin Street Station: 0.5 mi
- Mahalia Jackson: 0.3 mi
- Sidney Bechet: 0.3 mi
- French Opera: 0.3 mi
- Charles "Buddy" Bolden: 0.3 mi
- Chief Tootie: 0.3 mi
- Backstreet Cultural Museum: 0.1 mi
- Backstreet Cultural Museum: 0.2 mi
- Haunted Museum & Voodoo Pharmacy: 0.3 mi
- Marie Laveau's Tomb?: 0.5 mi
- New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum: 0.5 mi
- Audubon Louisiana Nature Center: 7.8 mi
- Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: 15.4 mi
- Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park: 16.0 mi
- CPRT Tracts 28 & 29: 22.0 mi
- Saint Tammany State Game Refuge: 22.4 mi
- Fazendeville: 4.9 mi
- Frenier: 23.6 mi
- Shell Beach: 24.2 mi
- Olimpic Beach: 24.2 mi
- Laborde Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Sciences Botanical Common area: 4.1 mi
- LaBranche Wetland Watchers Park: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of New Orleans African American Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborde Mountain | NNW 329° | 13 m | 3.0 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/345285907
Day trips start here
- New Orleans/Tremé · 0 mi
- New Orleans · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Central Business District · 1 mi
- New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny · 1 mi
- New Orleans/7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards · 2 mi
- New Orleans/Bywater · 2 mi
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