New Orleans Museum of Art: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New Orleans history

The sugar industry magnate Isaac Delgado  donated $150,000 to build a Beaux Arts temple in City Park. In the beginning the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art could show just a few unimportant artworks , but a century later the museum is home to an decorative arts and Japanese art also many different important pieces of art. NOMA has hosted exhibits of work by Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh.The museum's most memorable was in 1977's showing "Treasures of Tutankhamun"

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