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  2. New Orleans Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line. It was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art. [1]

  3. List of museums in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Part of the Louisiana State Museum, features a jazz museum and music venue that is part of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park New Orleans Museum of Art: City Park: Art: Collections include French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, Besthoff Sculpture Garden New Orleans Pharmacy Museum: French Quarter ...

  4. Whitney Plantation Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.

  5. Louisiana State Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana State Museum (LSM), founded in New Orleans in 1906, is a statewide system of National Historic Landmarks and modern structures across Louisiana, housing thousands of artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana's legacy of historic events and cultural diversity.

  6. Achaemenid Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Achaemenid Empire was created by nomadic Persians. The Persians were Iranian people who arrived in what is today Iran c. 1000 BC and settled a region including north-western Iran, the Zagros Mountains and Persis alongside the native Elamites. [28] The Persians were originally nomadic pastoralists in the western Iranian Plateau.

  7. Achaemenid architecture - Wikipedia

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    Achaemenid architecture includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for worship and social gatherings (such as Zoroastrian temples), and mausoleums erected in honor of fallen kings (such as the burial tomb of Cyrus the Great).

  8. Louisiana Museum - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; ... Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, US This page was last edited on 1 ...

  9. Beauregard-Keyes House - Wikipedia

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    The Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission installed a bronze plaque identifying the home's history in 1958. [3] Today, the Beauregard-Keyes house is restored to its Victorian style and showcases items from Beauregard's family, as well as Keyes's studio and her collections of dolls and rare porcelain veilleuses (tea pots). Keyes wrote several ...