The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art and across from the Cafe Du Monde, is an 11-acre art park. It showcases over 90 modern sculptures from international artists, set in a landscape of pines, magnolias, camellias, and moss-covered live oaks. A walking path meanders through the green space, sculptures, and reflecting lagoons.
The sculpture garden opened to the public in 2003, hosting early 60 sculptures, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s golden sculpture of the goddess Diana and Alison Saar’s Travelin Light, a commentary on the history of slavery in the United States. In 2019, 26 new sculptures were commissioned for the grounds, including a glass bridge by Elyn Zimmerman and a 60-foot-long mosaic by artist Teresita Fernández.