A great walk into the past. Comfortable setting and an eye opening experience! Country life in the middle of the big city!

A great walk into the past. Comfortable setting and an eye opening experience! Country life in the middle of the big city!
Staff was really nice and you could just walk around and see everything as it was back in that time, they also had a really nice collection of things inside to look at also. Nice to spend a few hour there.
They were filming a movie while I was here so was only able to tour the in door museum. They still charged me, though. The museum is a collection interesting, dusty junk. It could be really educational but everything is just thrown together. A total waste of time.
Since this is operated by LSU (and paid for by tax dollars)...
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unorganized events...things cancelled...caterpillars falling on you from the trees...just not worth it
Loved the tour of the museum. I was able to see a great deal of antiques and listen to what some local seniors had to say while we were on our visit.
This museum had a little bit of everything, though we were surprised that some artifacts or antiques were being handled by some of the folks walking through the museum. There aren't sufficient caretakers to avoid that.
The LSU Rural Life Museum is not as nice as the Louisiana State Museum downtown, but it has something the other museum does not have -- buildings relocated from plantations, towns, and farms in different areas of the state. We easily spent two hours here. We liked the old vehicles and carriages, old furnishings, and pieces of life from days...
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We been at different times of the year...the kids enjoy it most around Halloween bc the make a large corn maze in the field. They have many artifacts from wagons, to swords, to art and history. Fun learning experience.
There was a lot to see at this museum, it just wasn't well curated. Many of the exhibits had no explanation. I was hoping to find out more about slavery - one small room was dedicated to the topic and there were a slew of slave cabins but they needed to have much more detail added to the explanations. If...
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Like the outdoor space. Many buildings to wander through. Well worth the price. You can spend a little or a lot of time here.
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