New Orleans Jazz Museum
Greek Revival former mint that struck both United States and Confederate coins, now sheltering a vast jazz collection.
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This guide to the New Orleans Jazz Museum opens with a question archivist Greg Lambousy has spent his career answering: what does a flood leave behind. It traces the building's odd double life as the only U.S. mint to strike both American and Confederate coins, before it became a federal prison and then a Coast Guard station on its way to housing the state's jazz archive. Hurricane Katrina tore the roof off in 2005, and staff raced to haul the collection upstairs before the water came. Look for the case near where you're standing, one of the pieces that made that scramble worth it.
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