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since 1983 but after hurricane katrina, the exhibit was moved out and put into storage until basically now. it's slowly but surely starting to -- we slowly but surely started taking the instruments out of the archive and taking it here. the exhibit behind me. this mural, slowly but surely it actually is a jazz museum. they turned the entire second floor and to an entire history of jazz exhibit. it's kind of collectively improvised dance music, influenced by blues, and ragtime, and other things that had come across the city. >> jazz starts new orleans for a lot of different reasons. one is that new orleans was a huge port place, the various cultures that contributed to jazz they came here through the port with people delivering goods either from europe or from the caribbean or you know, from the northern portions of mississippi. there was a large presence of enslaved africans here and yet, there wasn't laws -- the laws governing how you treated them were more lenient than any other place in the country. i'm not saying that was easy to be a slave here, no, it was as difficult a