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The Negro Motorist Green Book Open Now!

The Smithsonian Institution's powerful traveling exhibition is at Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge!

Nine Museums, One Incredible State

With museums across the state, you can start planning your Louisiana staycation today!

Mystery in Motion Now Open at the Presbytère

In collaboration with guest curators Kim Vaz-Deville and Ron Bechet, Louisiana State Museum examines the direct influence of multicultural spirituality within the carnival traditions of Black New Orleanians.

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From the Fat Man to Mahalia: James Michalopoulos’ Music Paintings

Exhibition now open at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in the Old U.S. Mint!

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Exhibitions

The Negro Motorist Green Book

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana State Museum are proud to announce the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service's (SITES) exhibition "The Negro Motorist Green Book" will be on display at the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge from August 21 – November...

People and Power: Building History at the Cabildo

People and Power: Building History at the Cabildo

People have been making history at the Cabildo for more than two hundred years. Politicians, government officials, and members of the public who gathered at the Cabildo shaped law, politics, society, and culture in New Orleans and Louisiana. The building has witnessed important events—tragic and...

Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Color, sound, and energy fill the streets of New Orleans on Mardi Gras. While this pageantry might seem random and frivolous to the casual observer, many carnival parades, songs, activities, costumes, and masking traditions reflect diverse cultures and even sacred creeds. This is especially true...

The Mardi Gras Shipwreck

The Mardi Gras Shipwreck

The Louisiana Division of Archaeology and the Capitol Park Museum announce the opening of a new exhibit – The Mardi Gras Shipwreck. In 2007, a team of archaeologists and researchers mapped, recovered, and analyzed more than 1,000 artifacts from an underwater archaeological site in the...

The Golden Age of Aviation

The Golden Age of Aviation

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry P. Williams, who formed an air service in Patterson in 1928 that quickly rose to the top tier of air racing. Displays include numerous replica aircraft, such as the famous Miss Patterson #44 and the Gilmore #121,...

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation

Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation shows Louisiana’s impact on the nation and the world. From the Louisiana Purchase to the critical role Louisiana played in our nation’s wars (including the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the Civil War and both World...

Living with Hurricanes: Katrina & Beyond

Living with Hurricanes: Katrina & Beyond

Combining eyewitness accounts, historical context, immersive environments and in-depth scientific exploration, this exhibition shows the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and how Louisiana is learning to live more safely with hurricanes. Oral histories and artifacts, such as a Coast...

Marking Pictures: the Life and Work of Clementine Hunter

Marking Pictures: the Life and Work of Clementine Hunter

This exhibition explores the life and work of Clementine Hunter, one of the most important self-taught American artists of the twentieth century. Hunter, who referred to painting as “marking,” produced thousands of images drawn from her experiences working and living on Melrose Plantation in...

John James Audubon: Highlights from Birds of America

John James Audubon: Highlights from Birds of America

Fifteen double elephant folio engravings from John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published to great acclaim between 1827 and 1838, are on exhibit at the Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum. Audubon, who painted more birds in Louisiana than anywhere else, lived for a...

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat

Drumsville!: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat explores the role of percussion and rhythm in New Orleans and how the innovative drummers from the Crescent City continually changed that role and took it around the planet. The exhibit has a beautiful sampling of photographs and drums...

We Love You, New Orleans

We Love You, New Orleans

As part of New Orleans’ tricentennial activities, the Cabildo is proud to open a brand new exhibition, We Love You, New Orleans. Celebrating the people, places and things that make New Orleans one of the nation’s most unique cities to visitors and residents alike, the exhibition plays...

The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home

The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home

From "Buona Sera" to "Just A Gigolo," that "Old Black Magic" still has the world under Louis Prima’s spell! Join us at the New Orleans Jazz Museum for the exhibit The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home. As a trumpeter, singer, songwriter and performer, this son of New Orleans sons swinging...

Mardi Gras: It's Carnival Time in Louisiana!

Mardi Gras: It's Carnival Time in Louisiana!

Since 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d’Iberville, celebrated Shrove Tuesday at his encampment on the Mississippi River, Mardi Gras has been an integral part of Louisiana’s culture. Experience this extraordinary tradition through rare artifacts, scores of magnificent costumes,...

E.D. White & Bayou Lafourche Exhibition

E.D. White & Bayou Lafourche Exhibition

Exploring this National Historic Landmark will offer both a tour through a historical structure and the culture that surrounded the home throughout history. Situated on the banks of Bayou Lafourche, this was the residence of two of Louisiana’s significant political figures: Governor...

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Cabildo

The Cabildo

The Presbytère

The Presbytère

The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint

The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint

1850 House

1850 House

Madame John's Legacy

Madame John’s Legacy

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Capitol Park Museum

E.D. White Historic Site

E.D. White Historic Site

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest Louisiana History Museum

Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum

Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum

Events

Women in Black Masking Traditions

Women in Black Masking Traditions

Join us for an evening exploring the contributions, creations, and leadership of women in Black masking traditions. Panelists Nana Sula Janet Evans, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, and Carol “Baby Doll Kit”...

The Yellow Book: Old South Baton Rouge

The Yellow Book: Old South Baton Rouge

Please join us at 4 pm as LSU Assistant Professor Johanna Warwick discusses her photographic series, The Yellow Book, examining the 104 cities included in the National Interstate and Defense...

The Ghost of East Hall

The Ghost of East Hall

Please join us from 12:15 to 12:45 pm at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum as Debbie Dietrich-Smith, Chief of Historic Landscapes from NCPTT, discusses one of...

The GOOD News about America's Most Interesting Bird: the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

The GOOD News about America's Most Interesting Bird: the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

To many the magnificent, enormous Ivory-billed Woodpecker is part of a tragic tale: having made its last stand in Northeast Louisiana’s Singer Tract in the 1940s, the Ivorybill passed into extinction,...

Green Book Club - Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel

Green Book Club - Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel

Join us from 11:30am – 12:30pm central time for a book discussion of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel and virtual appearance by the author, Candacy Taylor. ...

"Juke Joint Men" Book Signing

"Juke Joint Men" Book Signing

Join J.K. Lawson and Kathe Hambrick from 4 pm to 7 pm for a brief presentation moderated by Angelique Bergeron followed by a book signing of their publication Juke Joint Men.

Juke...

State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis with Craig E. Colten

State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis with Craig E. Colten

Join us for an evening with Craig E. Colten as he discusses his new book, State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis (LSU Press, 2021). This program is sponsored...

Sensory Friendly Morning: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Sensory Friendly Morning: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Families of children with autism and developmental disabilities are invited to a sensory friendly morning at the Presbytère! On Saturday, November 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., the museum will open...

Sensory Friendly Afternoon: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Sensory Friendly Afternoon: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Teens and adults with autism and developmental disabilities and their families are invited to a sensory friendly afternoon at the Presbytère! On Saturday, November 13, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.,...

Closing Celebration: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Closing Celebration: Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras

Celebrate the closing of Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras with performances from Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Big Chief of the Northside Skull and Bone Gang...

Post-Pandemic Ideas about the Good Life: An Afternoon of Reflection and Meditation with Sacred Visual Art

Post-Pandemic Ideas about the Good Life: An Afternoon of Reflection and Meditation with Sacred Visual Art

Join us for an afternoon of performance, reflection, and discussion as artists and creators in the Black masking tradition reflect on their responses to Covid-19 pandemic. They will share inspirations...

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