
Welcome!
The public is invited to relax
and walk along the meandering footpaths in the
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which is home to more than fifty sculptures.
We encourage you to visit the Garden often, which is
open:
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is FREE to the public and open 7 days a week, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to dusk.
The Sculpture Garden is closed on all legal holidays.
Cell Phone Tour of Sculpture Garden
NOMA has launched its first audio tour
of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The guide, which is accessible through visitors' cell phones, highlights twenty of
the sculptures in the Garden. The tour is available free of charge.
East Jefferson Wellness Center (EJWC) Hosts
Yoga & Pilates in the Sculpture Garden
Yoga in the Garden:
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Saturday of every month
Instructors: Addy Meisenheimer / Claiborne Davis/Sara Lyon
Time: 8:00am - 9:00am
Dates: July 10th, 17th. August 7th, 14th, 21st. September 11th, 18th.
Cost: $5.00/class for Non-Members / Free for NOMA & Wellness Center Members
Pilates in the Garden:
4th Saturday of every month
Instructor: Beth Simons
Time: 8:00am - 9:00am
Dates: July 24th, August 28th, and September 25th
Cost: $5.00/class for Non-Members / Free for NOMA & Wellness Center Members
The Sculpture Collection
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
is home to 50+ sculptures by artists from around
the world. Forty-four of the sculptures have
been donated to the New Orleans Museum of Art
by the Besthoff Foundation. The other 11 are
Museum purchases or gifts from other donors.
The collection includes work by some of the
great master sculptors of the 20th century
(Antoine Bourdelle, Henry Moore, Jacques
Lipchitz, Louise Bourgeois), as well as
younger, contemporary sculptors (Kenneth
Snelson, Allison Saar, Joel Shapiro,
Jean-Michel Othoniel). Nine of the sculptures
pre-date 1960, while 29 of the artists
represented are living.
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