If you’re looking for a rooftop experience, this museum will host a viewing party on its terrace starting at 11:30 a.m. today, August 21. The Ogden will supply a limited number of solar glasses and complimentary soft drinks. Admission to the viewing party is free for museum members and Louisiana residents and is half-price regular museum admission to non-Louisiana residence.

If you want to jumpstart your Monday, this bar will host a celebration party, complete with cocktails and solar glasses, during the Eclipse. The friendly get-together will start at 11:30 a.m. today and end at 3:30 p.m.

On Monday, between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Xavier University’s physics department will have telescope and glasses for public viewing on Drexel Drive and Short Street.

New Orleans photographer Zack Smith announced that he will be taking photos of the Solar Eclipse in the city at this prime sport. Whether if you want a relaxing environment, or learn how to photograph a solar eclipse, this green space should rank high on your viewing spot list.

Listed as one of the best hotel pools in New Orleans, you can view the solar eclipse while enjoying the rooftop pool at this site.

Why not enjoy this natural phenomenon at the comfort of the Chime Trees and Big Lake at City Park? And, if you’re daring enough, you can rent a paddleboat during the highlight of the natural event.

Take a trip to the edge of the East Bank to this French Quarter park. Among beautiful scenery and the cool breeze from the river, you’ll be able to get an unobstructed view of the Eclipse.

If you rather not have any buildings potentially blocking your view of the celestial event, then consider viewing the eclipse in New Orleans’s second oldest neighborhoods.