Viewing Louisiana history through a brand new lens
Saturday, April 1, 2006
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La. State Museum
The new museum is located across from the state Capitol.
If you happen to be a school-kid going on a field trip to the new Louisiana State Museum, your life is far superior than the lives of school-kids gone before. That's because the Louisiana State Museum--Baton Rouge, the latest addition to the statewide museum project, offers visitors a chance to walk through a vibrant, interactive space highlighting the life and times of Louisianans.
Even the non-school-bus set can revel in the museum's mixed bag of artifacts, including a 45-foot shrimp boat and Louis Armstrong's trumpet. The items on display almost make regular works of art seem mundane by comparison.
The facility sits on 3.27 acres across from the State Capitol in the middle of Capitol Park. Eskew+Dumez+Ripple of New Orleans architectural firm designed the international style building, lead by project architect Tracy Lea. Chris Chadbourne and Associates of Boston designed the individual exhibits and the installation and fabrication was completed by ExPlus of Dulles, Virginia.
The museum has more in common with Graceland or Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory than the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fact sure to thrill elementary school students and adults alike.
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