New Orleans’ Old U.S. Mint, closed since it was heavily damaged in Hurricane Katrina, is facing an unexpectedly golden future.

“Gold,” an American Museum of Natural History exhibition featuring hundreds of gold nuggets, ingots, coins, pieces of jewelry and other objects, will open this fall at the

Esplanade Avenue building where more than 400 million gold and silver coins were minted between 1838 and 1909.

The Old Mint is part of the Louisiana State Museum, and museum Director David Kahn told the system’s board of directors last week that the exhibit will be there from Oct. 20 to Jan. 2.

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