Marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit "Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans," on view through October 5, tells the half-century history of the local Vietnamese community.

Interview subjects are Mark Cave, senior historian and the exhibit's curator, and Candy Ellison, who designed the exhibit's interactive elements.

Images to accompany the conversation can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

The traveling exhibition is on view at the free Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus through June 20, 2025. This episode features interviews with curator Laurie Ann Farrell and Maurita Poole, executive director of the Newcomb Art Museum.

Images accompanying the conversation can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

An in-gallery interview with artist and educator Keith Duncan and Bradley Sumrall, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's curator of the collection. The topic is the new exhibition "Battle of the Bands," capturing, in paint and fabric, heroically stylized performers from 15 Historically Black College and University marching bands.

Images accompanying the podcast are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

A visit to the New Orleans Jazz Museum with David Kunian, music curator. The first exhibit covers Louis Armstrong's youth in and later visits to his hometown. The second exhibit offers an overview of Louisiana's blues styles and purveyors.

Images to accompany the conversation are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com

A podcast visit to the National WWII Museum exhibit "Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II" with Cory Graff, museum curator and restoration manager.

Images accompanying the podcast can be found on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

A conversation with Joyce A. Miller, Louisiana State Museum historian and the curator of "Billy Cannon: They Called Him Legend," now on view at the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge.

Accompanying images on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

On view at the Cabildo in New Orleans through September 28, 2025, this exhibition collects more than 50 paintings, only a few of which feature the bright-blue, yellow-eyed apparition that by popular demand became artist George Rodrigue’s heraldic hound.

This podcast interview with curator and historian Joyce Miller is accompanied by photos on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

A visit to the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience for interviews with Kenneth Hoffman, executive director,

Photos accompanying the interviews are on the blog at themuseumgoer.com.

On view at the Cabildo until May 2026, "Botanica" connects the grown world to the communities who sow, reap, etc. -- from indigenous peoples to colonizers and their descendants to the enslaved and theirs. Listen to an in-gallery interview with co-curator Rachel Breunlin, then visit themuseumgoer.com to see images that accompany the talk.

December 1 is Museum Store Sunday, and more than 2,000 shops around the world participate. Many offer discounts and in-store events while collectively raising the profile of these unique outlets for art, garments, toys, books, and the occasional shot glass. In this episode of the Museumgoer Podcast, four New Orleans museum-store managers talk about their work.

Visit the blog at themuseumgoer.com to see images of some of the items discussed in the podcast.