The New Orleans Museum of Art Gains Digital Prestige In Its 100th Year

NOMA’s new website is a work of art in itself. After undergoing major recent renovations, the ultimate online source for the New Orleans Museum of Art has become not only a thing of beauty but an interactive user playground. Diving into the online world of NOMA is the next best thing to physically being there, which you will want to do eventually if you haven’t already. Luckily, the site can arrange that for you.

Collaborating with Blake Haney and Ben Hirsch of the comprehensive NOLA design and content strategy studio, The Canary Collective, they have devised a thoughtfully crafted digital representation of the New Orleans gallery experience. NOMA is working to upload pictures and information from all of their 35,000+ museum items onto the website. From what they have transferred online so far, you can browse by category, theme, geographic location and tags. Using their “Create Your Own Collection” too, you can save and print photos of exhibits to have in home or to self-guide a visit.

The new website comes with the entire NOMA 100 initiative – the centennial anniversary of the art museum bringing forth a renewal of its entire infrastructure ranging from welcoming a new director, Susan Taylor, to the Friday night Where Y’Art program to the new Café NOMA by restauranteur Ralph Brennan.

This is a great time to spend a day in New Orleans City Park at NOMA, as a large scale painting by artist Odili Donald Odita was just applied to the McDermott Lobby walls. The painting entitled “Forever” acts as a kind of visual path, and as Odita explains, it creates “a physical experience as much as an optical experience.” The piece made specifically for NOMA will be on display for two years.

Noma.org is your web tool to access “Forever” as well as the vast collection of paintings, photography, furniture, artifacts and the enchanting five acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Through the new site, experience NOMA’s art remotely or plan a trip to see it in person.

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