The Musée Conti operated from 1963 to 2016 as a wax museum telling the history of New Orleans through 154 life-sized figures — from Bienville to Andrew Jackson to Louis Armstrong to Marie Laveau. The collection was one of the few places in the Quarter that attempted a continuous historical narrative of the city. The museum closed after 53 years; the Conti Street building remains, another layer of the Quarter’s ongoing conversation between what survives and what doesn’t.
Quick facts
- ·Operated from 1963 to 2016 — 53 years of wax figures telling the story of New Orleans.
- ·154 life-sized figures depicted everyone from Bienville to Andrew Jackson to Louis Armstrong to Marie Laveau.
- ·One of the few Quarter attractions that attempted a continuous historical narrative of the city.
- ·The museum closed in 2016; the building on Conti Street remains.
- ·Part of the French Quarter's ongoing cycle of cultural memory — what survives and what doesn't.
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