Backstreet Cultural Museum

The Backstreet Museum is dedicated to helping preserve and present African American parading and street culture in New Orleans, Including Jazz Funerals, Mardi Gras Indians, Skull and Bone Gangs, Baby Dolls and all other forms of masking and parading.

The Backstreet Cultural Museum offers a unique view into some the most sacred and influential African, Afro-Creole and African American cultural retentions in the United States. Within museum's collection holdings are over 500 films created by the Mr. Sylvester Francis the creator and director of the Backstreet. The film content ranges from Jazz Funerals, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Skull and Bone Gangs, Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls and other black masking traditions.