Experience Jazz Music Where it all Began

The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is a national cultural museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, focused on preserving and promoting New Orleans jazz music. The park's Visitor Center shares space in the Jean Lafitte NHP&P French Quarter Visitor Center at 419 Decatur Street. The park's historic structures, including Perseverance Hall and the Jean Louis Rabassa House, are situated in Louis Armstrong Park at 916 N Peters Street. Two buildings that are not a part of the National Park but probably should be are the Eagle Saloon Building and the Iroquois Theater on South Rampart Street in New Orleans. - AsNotedIn

The park's mission is to serve the nation as a global leader in the promulgation of New Orleans jazz by enhancing and instilling a public appreciation and understanding of the origins, early history, development and progression of this uniquely American music art form - jazz. To preserve unimpaired this cultural resource and it's core values for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.