Built for the biggest hall in America. Priced like a contract.
Custom exhibits for the Morial Center’s mile of show floor on one fixed, contractual number — design through dismantle, signed before we start and unchanged when it ends, with storm-season freight planned in. The venue’s own charges get estimated against your booth before you commit, so the total isn’t a discovery.
Filters the booths below — each shows its New Orleans price.
Everything below came out of our own shop — designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed for approval before it shipped. If you’re comparing New Orleans exhibit companies, compare this: finished builds, named clients, real shows.
Teramind
1,800 sq ft island with interactive demo zones.
Radware
Hands-on learning stations inside a four-sided island.
Appdome
Security demo theatre built for high-volume technical traffic.
SpyCloud
Interactive stations arranged for one-to-one conversation.
Fulcrum GT
Full-height LED as the structure, not an add-on to it.
WillowTree
Meeting-led layout with enclosed rooms off an open front.
IMAX
Large-format island built around a screening experience.
Microsoft
Modular island scaled across a multi-show programme.
Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.
Most exhibit companies serving New Orleans look identical from their websites — portfolios, promises, a quote form. The differences that decide how your show actually goes only surface when you ask the right questions. Here are the four we’d want answered before hiring anyone, including us — with our answers attached.
Many are brokers — design subcontracted one way, construction another, margin and drift at every hand-off. Ours: design, fabrication, print and wiring in our own shop, one accountable team.
“Estimates subject to show-site conditions” become change orders. Ours: one figure covering design through dismantle, signed before work starts, unchanged at the end. Audit us on it.
Most booths meet their owner for the first time on the show floor. Ours: the complete booth stands in our shop and you approve photographs of it before it travels to Louisiana.
Some vendors end at delivery. Ours: our install supervisor runs your move-in window and your project manager stays reachable through every show day, first call to move-out.
Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibit rentals in New Orleans. Print these, take them into your budget meeting, hold us to them — that’s what they’re published for.
| Footprint | Area | Fixed price | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10×10 | 100 sq ft | $13,000 – $15,500 | Inline. One demo point, lead capture. |
| 10×20 | 200 sq ft | $20,000 – $24,000 | Inline. Demo plus seated conversation. |
| 20×20 | 400 sq ft | $31,000 – $35,000 | Island. Two or three zones, four-sided. |
| 20×30 | 600 sq ft | $33,000 – $38,500 | Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space. |
| 20×40 | 800 sq ft | $38,500 – $49,500 | Island. Multiple engagement zones. |
| 20×50 | 1,000 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Long-run product wall. |
| 30×30 | 900 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating. |
| 30×40 | 1,200 sq ft | $60,500 – $71,500 | Island. Flagship, double-deck capable. |
10×10 and 20×20 are New Orleans workhorses — inline booths for the association floors, 20×20 islands for the national shows — and each size above links to its full New Orleans catalog.
The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the booth. We estimate each line against your actual booth before you commit, then file inside the advance-rate window.
Run the numbers on most exhibit projects after the show and the same delta appears: final spend versus approved quote, up a quarter or more. The venue didn’t cause it — venue charges are tariffed and predictable. The exhibit house did, in hourly labour that “ran over,” design help re-billed as change orders, and reprints priced like emergencies. One 20×20 island in New Orleans, both ways:
On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s charges, tariffed and identical whoever builds for you. A vendor who “includes” them has buried them. We forecast each line for your booth up front and place the orders before the advance-rate window closes.
We quote higher and cost less. Audit us on it — the final invoice matching the quote is the deliverable.
Live inventory below, each card carrying its New Orleans price. Choose a footprint or budget in the finder above and the selection re-sorts right here — every structure finishable as a fully custom exhibit.
12 booths · New Orleans, Louisiana pricing
The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center holds about 1.1 million square feet of contiguous exhibit space — the largest single exhibit hall in the country — laid out as a run of halls stretching along the Mississippi for the better part of a mile. That shape is the single most important operational fact in New Orleans exhibiting: which hall you’re assigned decides which docks serve you, how far your freight and your attendees walk, and how your install day is sequenced.
The upriver and downriver ends of the building are a serious walk apart — for forklifts as well as people. We confirm your hall before anything books, then plan docks, labour calls and hotel geography to the correct end of the building.
Shows here run tens of thousands of attendees down long, wide aisles. Sightlines carry — hanging signs and tall central structures earn their cost, and a well-lit island reads from remarkable distances in these halls.
The Center sits against the Warehouse District with downtown hotels and the city’s restaurants close — client dinners book themselves in this town. Hospitality-forward booths get used harder here than almost anywhere.
A port city’s shows draw international exhibitors, and we build for them routinely: existing exhibition stand designs re-engineered to US specifications — 110-volt power, imperial footprints, American fire and structural rules — with drayage, union labour, EACs and COIs handled as standard, and photo or live-video sign-off on the finished stand from any timezone before it ships.
New Orleans’ show calendar doesn’t pause for hurricane season — some of the year’s biggest floors run straight through it — and the Gulf makes its own schedule. A named storm three states away can close highways, reshuffle dock days and compress everyone’s move-in at once. Exhibitors coordinating five separate vendors into that window learn what “weather permitting” means on an exhibitor-kit timeline.
Our model was built for exactly this. One booth, one consolidated shipment, one team — pre-built, photographed and verified before it meets the season, travelling with buffer days planned to the Gulf rather than to the calendar’s optimism. The fewer moving parts weather can touch, the fewer it does.
Storm-season loads ship with slack budgeted, not hoped for — arriving early and warehoused beats arriving in the weather. The padding is scheduling, and scheduling is inside the fixed price.
A pre-built booth consolidates to one shipment — structure, graphics, AV, flooring together. Five vendors’ trucks give a storm five chances; ours gives it one, with a verified build inside.
COIs, EACs and show filings sit complete well ahead of the window, so a compressed or rescheduled move-in is a logistics change, not a scramble — and your project manager runs it, not your team.
Exhibiting across the Gulf and the South? Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Orlando run on the same published fixed model — one booth design, one project manager, and every city’s price known before your year starts.
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
New Orleans runs on rotation more than fixture — the Morial Center’s scale makes it a favorite stop for national association, medical and industry mega-shows that move city to city, anchored by hometown fixtures like the WorkBoat Show. Name yours and we’ll pull its manual before we quote.
| Show | Typical month | Venue | Start planning |
|---|---|---|---|
| International WorkBoat Show | Late Nov – Dec · verify | Morial Convention Center | 4 months |
| Rotating national conventions | Year-round | Morial Convention Center | 4–6 months |
| Storm-season shows | June – November | Morial Convention Center | + buffer days |
Storm-season shows carry buffer days by design — freight into the Gulf between June and November ships early and warehouses locally rather than racing the forecast. It costs you nothing; it’s scheduling, and scheduling is inside the fixed price.
Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. Everything else in the plan exists to arrive at that gate comfortably.
Late vendor collapse, a show slot that opened up, a budget approved behind schedule — with design, fabrication and print in one building, a New Orleans booth can go approval-to-floor in about four weeks. Same quality gate (built and photographed before shipping), same printed price. Compressed timelines are our scheduling problem, not your surcharge.
Tell us the show and the space. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed New Orleans figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it — a budget your whole chain of approval can read at a glance.
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