Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans)

400 Esplanade Ave. For more info: (504) 568-6968. The museum features a new exhibit each month.

“Treasures of Napoleon,” through Aug. 3. The exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to see beyond the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte and to gain an understanding of this complex figure of a man. More than 400 artifacts including the earliest known letter in his hand; the valise that brought him the signed Louisiana Purchase documents from America; the sword that proclaimed him Emperor in the Coronation Ceremony at Notre Dame; his bed from the Battle of Wagram; his personal map of the French Empire; and the clothes he wore soon before his death.