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.