Since it opened in 2010, the Presbytère exhibition “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond” has occupied some of the most valuable real estate in the Louisiana State Museum system and has arguably been the most important permanent museum exhibition in town.

Steps from the tourist magnet of Jackson Square , it’s been an engaging learning machine for visitors who only know the storm and its failed-levee aftermath through fading memories of live TV coverage of the catastrophe that came in the wake of Aug. 29, 2005.

To mark Katrina’s 20th anniversary, the exhibit is undergoing renovations to update its multimedia displays (with the Solomon Group supporting staff curators) and to broaden and extend the city’s recovery timeline into the present.

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