Music in Libs Preconf
Annual Meeting Home
Registration
Program
Accommodations
Local Information
Travel Grant
Travel Information
SEMLA Home

Local Information

General New Orleans Information

New Orleans Convention and Visitor’s Bureau

• Official Visitors Guide and other brochures
• Maps
• Weather
• Public transit, including streetcars

Other general websites, including information about events occurring during the SEMLA weekend:

• NOLA Fun Guide
• NOLA.com – Times-Picayune’s website
• Best of New Orleans – Gambit (alternative weekly newspaper)
• New Orleans.com
• New Orleans Online.com

Art Galleries

Best of New Orleans

Music

Frenchmen St. – Most of the general websites listed above include calendars of events. This site is for Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny (immediately downriver from the French Quarter) – the site of a number of really great music clubs.

Restaurants

The New Orleans Menu
New Orleans Restaurants.com

Tours

Lists of tours (not all of the tours on these two sites are listed below)

• The New Orleans Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
• New Orleans.com

General city tours

• Celebration Tours – City of New Orleans and Katrina Recovery Tour
• Gray Line
• Louisiana Tour Company – Various tours, including swamp tours, plantation tours, city tours
• Tours by Isabelle – New Orleans Combo-City Tour:

French Quarter Walking Tours

• Download a French Quarter Walking Tour (PDF)
• Friends of the Cabildo – Early afternoon, for 2 hours
• Tour-New-Orleans.com
• Royal Carriages – Let the mules do the walking while you relax in a carriage. You can make reservations, but there’s generally only a short wait if you don’t make a reservation – stop at the carriages lined up next to Jackson Square
• Jazz History Walking Tours – self-guided, with maps and info on the web

Other Only-In-New-Orleans Tours

Cemetery:

• Save our Cemeteries, Inc. – tour of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

Garden District:

• Walking Tours

Ghost tours, vampire tours, cemetery tours, haunted mortuary tours:
Every evening (and some afternoons), in the French Quarter, Garden District, or cemeteries

• New Orleans Ghost Tour
• Haunted History Tours
• Haunted Mortuary Tours
• New Orleans Spirit Tours

Mardi Gras:

• Mardi Gras World – Tour the exhibit of the floats and other sights and sounds of Carnival parades and balls.

Post-Katrina Tour:
See also the general city tours listed above

• Tours By Isabelle – Going through a number of New Orleans neighborhoods, including stops at several of the levee breaches in the various neighborhoods

River cruises:

• Creole Queen – evening jazz cruise, including a Creole buffet
• Steamboat Natchez – evening jazz cruise with option of dinner

Swamp:

Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tours

Other Sites of Interest

Audubon Aquarium of the Americas

Audubon Insectarium

Audubon Park and Zoo

Backstreet Cultural Museum

Contemporary Arts Center

Herman-Grima and Gallier Historical Houses

Historic New Orleans Collection

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Reserve

Louisiana State Museum (including the Cabildo and Presbytere)

National World War II Museum

New Orleans Museum of Art

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Lagniappe:

A new Border’s bookstore has opened, near the Hampton Inn-St. Charles Avenue, in the former Bultman Funeral Home. Go check out the books and vibes. (3338 Saint Charles Ave.)

NOTE

Two places often visited by tourists have recently moved:

• Mardi Gras World is now on the East Bank, near the Convention Center, at 1380 Port Of New Orleans Place
• Rock-N-Bowl has moved about a mile closer to Loyola University, to 3000 S. Carrollton Ave. (at Earhart Blvd.)