For the whole family. Wide array of unique tours. The museum starts with the portrait of the Great Marie Laveau, the Popess or Voodoo, read her short biography next to her portrait. Blue candles burn in her honor. Follow into the hall with pictures of rituals, ancient and modern, photographs of modern-day practitioners and paintings of now deceased Queens.
Old maps retrace the journey of slaves from West Africa.
The paintings are from Haiti and original works by Charles M. Gandolfo. Make an offering of rum, cigar or money. Above Exu, African and Caribbean masks, statues from Africa and Louisiana. The Altar Room has statues of Saints and photographs of querents who have been been blessed by intervention of the Spirits. Musee Conti Wax Museum ,17 Conti St.,525-2605.