New Orleans Jazz Museum®
The Burgundy & Dumaine Jazz Archive
Where Jazz
Came Home
New Orleans Jazz Museum® is an active online museum and digital archive preserving the instruments, records, Jazz Folk Art, photographs, and stories of New Orleans jazz.
This online collection is available for researchers, collectors, educators, and anyone who loves jazz music.
Explore the Collection
Dumaine Street
History
Few corners in America carry this much history. Before jazz. Before the Louisiana Purchase. Before the United States itself. This corner of Burgundy and Dumaine has been here since 1754 — and it has been at the center of something remarkable ever since.
One of the oldest surviving buildings in the French Quarter stands at this corner — assembled in 1781 from river mud, Spanish moss, and horsehair, and still standing after the two catastrophic fires that destroyed most of French colonial New Orleans.
Stories
Jazz history, collection highlights, and stories from the archive are published here as the collection grows. New Orleans jazz has more stories than any archive could hold! These are some of them.
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Official apparel and souvenirs bearing the registered trademark NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM® — available through our Zazzle storefront.
New Orleans Jazz Museum® Musicians Magnet
New Orleans Jazz Museum®Drum Mug
New Orleans Jazz Museum® T-Shirt
New Orleans Jazz Museum®Trumpet (purple) T-shirt
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