New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) (New Orleans, Louisiana)

The New Orleans Museum of Art, or "NOMA", is was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art with a bequest from Isaac Delgado. It is the city's oldest fine arts institution, and is located within City Park.

NOMA's permanent collection is particularly strong in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works. Its comprehensive collection of French art includes works by Degas, Picasso, Braque, Dufy and Miró. Other artists also featured in the permanent collection include Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Gauguin and Rodin.

NOMA also has an extensive collection of art of the Americas (North America, Central America, and South America), with works from the pre-Columbian period through the Spanish Colonial era. Of particular note are the Maya and Cuzco items. Notable exhibitions have included treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb, relics of Alexander the Great and his times, a retrospective of Edgar Degas's time in Louisiana, "Carneval!" focusing on the pre-Lenten festivals held in various cities and cultures in Europe and the Americas (including New Orleans Mardi Gras itself), and images and art related to the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.

The Museum's collection was fortunately elevated high enough to escape the flooding in the disastrous post-Katrina levee breaches, with most of the damage restricted to office space in the basement.

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