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Things to do in NOLA

The Country Club

Hidden away in New Orleans’ charming Bywater neighborhood, The Country Club offers an elegant escape from everyday living. Our beautifully renovated restaurant and bar deliver exquisite food and drink in sophisticated surroundings. And our separate pool area is a bohemian retreat complete with a poolside bar and outdoor kitchen. You must be at least 21 years old with a valid ID to enter.

Louisiana Children's Museum

Since opening its doors in 1986, the Louisiana Children’s Museum has been one of the city’s premier attractions for children. We welcome 147,000 visitors per year, engaging children, families, caregivers, and school groups in memorable interactive experiences designed to make learning fun. The Museum’s 30,000 square feet of exhibit space and programs offer children a diverse set of activities that promote learning across many disciplines – from reading and math skills to architectural ideas and the nuances of grocery shopping – through interactive play. Whether they are learning what bones they use to ride a bike, alongside Mr. Bones or loading up a cargo ship in the Little Port of New Orleans exhibit, children take an active role in their own learning.

Melba's Poboys

Melba’s was born from the rubble of Hurricane Katrina, turning a blighted corner into a New Orleans landmark. Located at the intersection of North Claiborne Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue, this PoBoy Shoppe has become the cornerstone of the neighborhood and well-known as a favorite among the locals. New Orleans tourists crave Melba’s Creole flavor and urban atmosphere. Located just blocks away from the French Quarter and en route to the Lower 9th Ward Katrina tours, Melba’s is the perfect place to stop and experience authentic New Orleans cuisine. Come discover our authentic PoBoys, where what you see is absolutely what you get.

The National WWII Museum

Offering a compelling blend of sweeping narrative and poignant personal detail, The National WWII Museum features immersive exhibits, multimedia experiences, and an expansive collection of artifacts and first-person oral histories, taking visitors inside the story of the war that changed the world. Beyond the galleries, the Museum's online collections, virtual field trips, webinars, educational travel programs, and renowned International Conference on World War II offer patrons new ways to connect to history and honor the generation that sacrificed so much to secure our freedom.

Free Tours By Foot

We provide a platform for local, licensed, freelance tour guides to lead walking tours as well as ghost, food, bike and bus tours at no upfront cost and no solicitation, so that you may enjoy a worry-free quality sightseeing experience. Walking tours are our forte, and we offer a number of daily and weekly pay-what-you-like walking tours of New Orleans. There’s no cost to book our walking tours, so there’s no risk for you. You could browse the tours that we have by clicking the links below, by scrolling our public calendar or just go to our booking page to see what we have available and to book now. Daily Tours For the classic New Orleans tour, we offer you our French Quarter Tour. Visit the beautiful mansions of the Garden District with a stop at Lafayette Cemetery #1. New Orleans is filled with the tortured souls of the past. Learn about and engage with them on our New Orleans Ghost Tour.

French Quarter

DescriptionThe French Quarter is the city’s historic heart, famous for its vibrant nightlife and colorful buildings with cast-iron balconies. Crowd-pleasing Bourbon Street features jazz clubs, Cajun eateries and raucous bars serving potent cocktails. Quieter streets lead to the French Market, with gourmet food and local crafts, and to Jackson Square where street performers entertain in front of soaring St. Louis Cathedral.

Pat O'Brien's

Pat O’Brien ran a speakeasy in the 600 block of St. Peter street in New Orleans’ French Quarter, until the repeal of Prohibition. When he officially opened the bar on December 3, 1933. He developed a friendship with Charlie Cantrell and after many years of fun and lots of poker games, the two men purchased the building that is now home to Pat O’Brien’s Bar at 718 St Peter street. This Historical Building was built in 1791 as a private home and later became the first Spanish Theatre in the United States. It was converted back to a private residence until 1942, when O’Brien and Cantrell purchased the spacious place to become home to one of the most iconic nightclubs in the United States. The old bar had an upright piano to entertain, but 718 St Peter allowed them to go bigger and better with two baby grand pianos … and dueling piano entertainment was born!

Voodoo Festival: Music and Arts Experience

Voodoo is a musical gumbo stirring together music, art, community, cuisine and all the mystery and adventure that Halloween weekend in New Orleans conjures up. With more than 65 bands over three days, Voodoo is more than just a Festival – it is an experience. A culinary experience New Orleans food gives the stage to some of the tastiest indigenous flavors around. Whether you’re stopping by the Forked Up Food Court or joining us for Feast Under The Stars the night before Voodoo, everything is fresh and made by some of the top chefs in town. Have you ever tried Shrimp Poboys or Fried Duck Quesadillas with Tabasco? Now’s your chance.

Salon by Sucré - French Quarter

Salon is the culmination of Sucré’s beautiful approach to contemporary cuisine and passion for exceptional service and presentation. Located in the heart of the French Quarter in a beautiful mid-century modern dining room, Salon blends the time-honored formality of New Orleans service with creative and contemporary menus. Whether you’re craving brunch, afternoon tea, happy hour, or dessert, Salon offers a refined, yet relaxed culinary experience.

K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen

Studio Be

Brandan “BMike” Odums is a New Orleans-based visual artist who, through exhibitions, public programs, and public art works, is engaged in a transnational dialogue about the intersection of art and resistance. From film to murals to installations, Odums’ work encapsulates the political fervor of a generation of Black American activists. Most often working with spray paint, Odums paints brightly-colored, wall-sized murals that depict historical figures, contemporary creatives, and everyday people. In his otherwise figurative work, Odums departs from realism to play with color – blending lavender to paint the skin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and robin’s egg blue for Harriet Tubman, for instance – suggesting an ethos of boldness that unites the subjects of his work and surpasses race, time, or any other aspect of physical reality.

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