New Orleans Jazz Museum

Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint, New Orleans Jazz Museum is located at the intersection of the French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street in the heart of the city’s vibrant music scene. The jazz collection at the museum chronicles the music and careers of the men and women who created, enhanced and continue in the tradition of New Orleans jazz at the local and international levels. It consists of instruments, pictorial sheet music, photographs, records, tapes, manuscripts and other items ranging from Louis Armstrong’s first coronet to a 1917 disc of the first jazz recording ever made. It also includes the world’s largest collection of instruments owned and played by important figures in jazz- trumpets, cornets, trombones, clarinets and saxophones played by jazz greats.