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The New Orleans Museum of Art, founded in 1911 as the Delgado Museum, is the city's oldest fine-arts museum and stands in City Park. Its collection of about 40,000 works ranges from European painting and Japanese art to photography, glass and art from Africa and the Americas. Beside it lies the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

The Hermann-Grima House is a Federal-style brick mansion on St. Louis Street in the French Quarter, built in 1831 for the merchant Samuel Hermann. Guided tours show the furnished rooms, the courtyard garden, the stable and the open-hearth kitchen, and tell of the family and of the enslaved people who worked in the house.

The Court of Two Sisters is a restaurant on Royal Street in the French Quarter, named after two sisters who ran a notions shop in the building in the late 19th century. Guests eat Creole dishes in a large walled courtyard shaded by trees, and a jazz trio plays during the daily brunch.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in the Warehouse District is devoted to the art of the American South, from the 18th century to today. Founded in 1999 around the collection of Roger Ogden, it shows painting, photography, sculpture and crafts in a modern hall linked to the 1889 Howard Memorial Library, designed after H. H. Richardson.

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans' Warehouse District tells the story of the American experience in the Second World War. It opened in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was named the country's official WWII museum by Congress in 2003. Its pavilions hold aircraft, vehicles, oral histories and a submarine experience.