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Contemporary Arts Center

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans is an arts complex located in historic downtown New Orleans. Founded in 1976, the center plays host to events and performances from visual arts to concert performances and lectures.
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  • Type: Arts center
  • Description: art center in New Orleans
  • Also known as: “Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans” and “Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Confederate Memorial Hall Museum.

Museum
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The is a museum dedicated to art by artists from the southern United States in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was established in 1999.

Museum
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is a museum located in which contains historical artifacts related to the Confederate States of America and the American Civil War.

Park
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is a central traffic circle in , , which featured a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee between 1884 and 2017. is situated 570 feet west of Contemporary Arts Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central Business District and Lower Garden District.

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The is the part of similar to what many cities call "Downtown". Just "up" from the is the CBD. Like many other large American cities, this area has skyscrapers and modern office towers housing cooperate and regional offices; however some interesting 19th-century architecture is also preserved.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood of the city of . A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: St.

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Way down yonder in , you'll find the roots of jazz and a blossoming culture that is unlike anything else on Earth. Here, the laid-back atmosphere of the riverfront South has mixed with French sophistication, Spanish style, and African-American energy to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

Contemporary Arts Center

Latitude
29.9438° or 29° 56′ 38″ north
Longitude
-90.07077° or 90° 4′ 15″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
76XFWWVH+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1434881683
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­arts_centre
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
7710537
Wiki­data ID
Q5164964
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In Other Languages

“Contemporary Arts Center” goes by many names.
  • Persian: “موزه هنرهای معاصر (نیواورلئان)”
  • Persian: “موزه هنرهای معاصر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Contemporary Arts Center”. Photo: Reading Tom, CC BY 2.0.