Museums

Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum
1500 Governor Nicholls St
Proprietor: Al Jackson
Treme
https://acloserwalknola.com/places/tremes-petit-jazz-museum/

Backstreet Museum
1531 St Philip St
Treme
https://www.backstreetmuseum.org/

Publications

Offbeat Magazine
Proprieter: Jan Ramsey
https://www.offbeat.com

Music Venues

DBA
618 Frenchmen St
Marigny
https://dbaneworleans.com/

Cafe Istanbul
2372 St Claude Ave Room 252
Marigny/7th Ward
Proprietor: Chuck Perkins
(Check for poetry nights.)
http://cafeistanbulnola.com/

Website

ACloserWalkNOLA.com
Proprietor: Jordan Hirsch
https://acloserwalknola.com/

Bookstores

Louisiana Music Factory
421 Frenchmen St
Marigny
Lots of music, too.
https://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/

Octavia
513 Octavia St
Uptown
https://www.octaviabooks.com/

Community Book Center
2523 Bayou Rd
Seventh Ward
https://readcbc.com/

Frenchmen Art and Books
600 Frenchmen St
Marigny
https://www.frenchmenartandbooks.com/

Coffeehouse

Mojo’s Coffeehouse
1500 Magazine
Lower Garden District
https://mojocoffeehouse.com/

Orientation

Hop-On and Hop-Off Tour Bus

In an ideal world, you’d have a good friend who is a local to give you the lay of the land. Absent that, I recommend the “Hop-On-Hop-Off” bus tour.

New Orleans is not a small town and it would take weeks, if not months, to sort it out on your own.

The Hop-on and Hop-off bus takes you to many of the main points of interest in the city, in particular, these four:

3 Esplanade Avenue Near St Peters Street & Ursulines Avenue – stop here for Farmers Market & Flea Market, Old US Mint – A Louisiana State Museum, and Frenchman Street Music Clubs.

4 Tremé / Lafitte Rampart & Ursulines Avenue – Stop here for St Augustine Church & a short walk to Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum and the Backstreet Museum.

5 Basin St. Station City Sightseeing Information Centre, St Louis Cemetery (when open), Armstrong Park & Congo Square.

11 First of three stops on Magazine Street which is worth a stroll. This stop puts you close to the neighborhood I landed in when I first came to the city.
https://www.citysightseeingneworleans.com


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