Explore in-person and online workshops with museum professionals to help you preserve your family heirlooms, research your genealogy, and more.

Told in the voices of the interviewees themselves, new narratives shed light on the lineages of parading organizations and the neighborhood traditions and practices of second-line parades.

Begun in 1960 to bolster local historic preservation efforts, the survey contains detailed property data about every building and lot in the French Quarter from the French colonial period to the present.

Explore our oral history project featuring testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.

An oral history project that documents New Orleans’s Vietnamese American community, which continues to profoundly influence the city and its culture.

A database of more than 2,500 advertisements placed in the decades following the Civil War chronicles individuals searching for loved ones lost in slavery.

HNOC’s ongoing research project dedicated to the material culture of the Gulf South

Read our guide to caring for ephemera tied to this unique New Orleans tradition, created in collaboration with Big Chief Howard Miller of the Creole Wild West and other members of the Black Masking Indian community.