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Backstreet Cultural Museum

Name: Backstreet Cultural Museum
Address: 1531 Henriette Delille St, New Orleans, LA, US

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Sarah

July 2, 2018

This place is a gem. The proprietor Sylvestor Francis collected discarded one of a kind, hand sewn and beaded suits made by member of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tribes. In homage to Native Americans, early African American New Orleanians masked "Indian" and paraded in the streets. Still do. You can find out more about them at the museum and on wwoz.org.

Tamarin Steve

August 29, 2016

family owned and crated with love and respect for Mardi Gras Indian and Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

Hayley

April 20, 2016

Located in the neighborhood Treme' they are focused on NOLA traditions, brass bands, and Mardi Gras Indians.

Jamie

April 15, 2016

The Backstreet Cultural Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection related to New Orleans’ African American community-based masking and processional traditions, including the Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, social aid and pleasure clubs, Baby Dolls, and Skull and Bone gangs. The museum’s filmed records of over 500 events constitute the most cohesive archive documenting these cultural traditions. In addition to its permanent exhibits, the Backstreet Cultural Museum hosts public performances of music and dance, provides outreach programs, and creates an annual book, Keeping Jazz Funerals Alive, that chronicles the year’s jazz funerals. The Backstreet Cultural Museum educates diverse constituencies about New Orleans’ African American heritage. - Atlas Obscura