New Orleans Jazz Museum Partners With Google Arts and Culture
“Robert Lewis” (1959) by Henri L. Chevrier. See more images like this from the New Orleans Jazz Museum at Google Arts & Culture.
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE TO LAUNCH NEW DIGITAL INITIATIVES
NEW ORLEANS (JANUARY 29, 2021) — The New Orleans Jazz Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to make its historic collections available online. Specially curated digital exhibits and hundreds of images that accompany the music New Orleans made famous are now just a click away at Google Arts and Culture on the web and on its app (iOS | Android).
The launch is one of several digital initiatives aimed at making the museum’s programs and collections more accessible in a COVID-19 world. In the museum’s first virtual exhibit, Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat, viewers can discover the history of the drum set, stories and influences of legendary local drummers, and the ongoing evolution of rich New Orleans drumming traditions. Similarly, students and enthusiasts alike are able peruse much of the museum’s extensive archival collections, which are currently in the process of being digitized, through the museum’s updated research page (www.nolajazzmuseum.org/research).
Joining these digital enterprises in the spring of 2021 will be a new program, New Orleans Cultural & Musical Connections, a series of interactive virtual field trips targeted at 4th–8th grade students across the nation. Made possible through a grant from the National Park Foundation, these virtual visits will be available as both self-guided lessons accompanied by videos and handouts and as Zoom-based guided “tours” with the option for a live-streamed performance from New Orleans musicians and culture-bearers.
Since the start of COVID-19, the museum has also hosted two weekly virtual concert series: Quarantunes (Fridays at 2:00 p.m. CST) and Jazz from the Balcony (Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. CST). Both shows are live- streamed to the Jazz Museum’s Facebook page as well as uploaded to Youtube.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum closed briefly back in March 2020 amid a statewide shutdown of all non-essential businesses, but it has since re-opened at a limited capacity. For more information, visit www.nolajazzmuseum.org.
ABOUT GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE
Google Arts & Culture puts the treasures, stories, and knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at your fingertips. If Google’s mission is to make the world’s information more accessible, then Arts & Culture’s mission is to make the world’s culture accessible to anyone, anywhere. It’s your doorway to explore art, history, and wonders of the world.
ABOUT THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM
The New Orleans Jazz Museum, located in the heart of New Orleans’s French Quarter, celebrates jazz in the city where it was born, through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances. Through partnerships with local, national, and international educational institutions, the Jazz Museum promotes a global understanding of jazz as one of the most innovative, historically pivotal musical art forms in world history. The Jazz Museum is a Louisiana State Museum.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Greg Lambousy
New Orleans Jazz Museum Director
504-427-2190
Baylee Badawy
New Orleans Jazz Museum
216-372-8268
