Housed in the Old US Mint Building (there is still a small, free exhibition on the ground floor), the Jazz Museum is cheap to enter and very worthwhile. I heard a very good live show in the auditorium (Ron Hacker & Friends), then toured various galleries over two floors relating to drums, mardi gras, Louis Prima and Professor Longhair. Lots of good stories, good info boards, exhibits.

This museum says it has three floors. The first floor is devoted to exhibits about the mint (which was the prior occupant of the building), one floor to jazz, and third a (now closed) exhibition space. The jazz floor highlights maybe four artists and does not have any story or coherent timeline or other cohesion. A waste of time and money.

A must read other reviews to get the composite of the place. Yes it is in the building that was the Mint, even an old safe door on display. Displays of Jazz artist and festivals are on spots of first and then second floor. Yes there is an elevator. A lovely young lady of the museum staff gave me a bit of a tour as we checked out the Longhair Byrd exhibit, the artifacts and pictures of Louis Armstrong and pictures and items of various Jazz festivals. When I had heard about this place, I placed it on my bucket list. While not a huge museum, I found the selections and even the audios worth a listen and seeing instruments used by them interesting and colorful, but more than that /- of the Feel.