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Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Hosts changing exhibitions gallery and permanent collection gallery of Contemporary Louisiana Artists. Also a Children's hands-on gallery and multi-media gallery.
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Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium, Lafayette, LA
The Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium exists to encourage the discovery and understanding of the natural world, the universe, and the role of humans within them. Exhibits and planetarium programs change regularly. Collections include cultural artifacts of South Louisiana, Louisiana landscape paintings, osteological materials, and meteorites and tektites.
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Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, Madisonville, LA
The mission of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin maritime Museum has evolved and grown over its 15-year history, but stated in its simplest form today, it is to bring Louisiana’s unique maritime history to life. Louisiana, and particularly the bayous, stream, Currently, the Museum has about 8000 square feet of exhibit space available and hopes to have this filled with exhibits telling the comprehensive history story cited above in a little over a year, pending the availability of funds. Treasures of the Tchefu
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Louisiana Children's Museum, New Orleans, LA
Located within easy walking distance of the Mississippi River and French Quarter, the Louisiana Children's Museum offers interactive adventures for children and adults. Highlights include a supermarket, Kids' Cafe, where children can serve"meals"to their parents, and Art Trek. LCM offers many special art workshops for children of all ages.
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Louisiana Museum of Military History, Lafayette, LA
The Louisiana Museum of Military History is a hands on museum of Military equipment. It has 25,000 sq ft of indoor exhibits. Including Tanks Jeeps Helicopters weapons and article of clothing from WWI, WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm!.
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Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
The museum contains over 75,000 artifacts related to the history and culture of the State of Louisiana. It maintains ten properties around the State.
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LSU Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
LSU's Museum of Natural Science is both a research collection and an educational museum. Take a tour of our puclic exhibits and see what research goes on behind the scences.
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Musee Conti Wax Museum, New Orleans, LA
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New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city's oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, African and Japanese works, continues to grow.
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Northeast Louisiana University Museum of Zoology, Monroe, LA
Large research collection of freshwater fishes, reptiles and amphibians. Primarily North American in scope, some Neotropical and Asian specimens. Tours by appointment.
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Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, LA
A Castellated-Gothic building, the Louisiana Old State Capitol Building was built from 1847 - 1849 and served as the state house until 1932 with periods of disuse during and after the Civil War. It has been restored several times, the most recent and ext The Old State Capitol is Louisiana's Center for Political History and is the official repository for film and video archives and houses state-of-the-art interactive exhibits and a multimedia presentation. We have an animatronic figure of Governor Hue
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Southdown Plantation House, Houma, LA
Southdown Plantation House is a 19th-century sugar manor house and home to the Terrebonne Museum of history and culture. It was built in 1859 as a one-story Greek Revival house by sugar planter William J. Minor. His son, Henry C. Minor, added the second f The Southdown sugar plantation remained in the Minor family until 1932, and during the 1920s the owners helped to save the sugar industry in Louisiana by propagating a sugarcane variety resistant to mosaic disease.
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THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION, New Orleans, LA
Welcome to the website of the Historic New Orleans Collection. Through it, you can learn about current exhibitions and public programs, publications, a complex of historic buildings, research collections, guided tours, and gift shop. We hope that we may assist you in discovering and appreciating the history, art, and culture of one of the most fascinating places. We welcome and encourage your attendance in person when visiting the French Quarter, and virtually whenever you access thi
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The Old Governor's Mansion, Baton Rouge, LA
A Louisiana look-alike of the White House complete with an East Room, Oval Room, and Rose Garden. Built in 1930 by the celebrated firm of Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth for Governor Huey P. Long. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Collection spans the years 1930 through 1963 when the historic house was home to nine governors and their families. Items include Huey Long's "green pajamas" and Governor Jimmie Davis gold record.
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University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
The University Art Museum's Permanent Collection consists of more than 1,500 works of art, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and photographs. This collection represents 18th, 19th and 20th century Louisiana, as well as the United States, Europe and Japan. Check back soon for a visual sampling of objects in the collection.
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