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Curated Exhibits

UNO Archaeological Research and Curation hosts public outreach material produced under contract to federal agencies for compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. UNO ARC assists with organizing material submitted to us into engaging interpretive exhibits. Some of these are collected here:

A Historic School and a Yellow Fever Hospital: Excavations from Thurgood Marshall School

Archaeology gives us the tools to understand how people lived. Historic archaeology allows us to compare the written descriptions of...

Immigrant Households in Mid-City: Excavations from Albert Wicker Elementary School

After Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the Albert Wicker Elementary School on Bienville Avenue, the Orleans Parish School Board chose to...

Development of Bayou Road: Excavations at John McDonogh Senior High School

Hand drawn map of New Orleans in the 1700s. The city is a grid of six blocks by twelve blocks oriented to the Mississippi River. Stretching behind the city block to the North is Bayou Road with small settlements drawn in clusters along the road. Trees, grasses and fields are drawn in with hundreds of small stylistic figures.

The old John McDonogh Senior High School at 2426 Esplanade Avenue (now Bricolage Academy) was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina...