Location: Baton Rouge
Top Things to do in Baton Rouge
Top Restaurants in Baton Rouge
Top 5 Specialty Museums in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LA)
Settled by Europeans on Native American hunting grounds, the city of Baton Rouge has grown up under the influence of English, French, Spanish, and native cultures. The city is proud of its Cajun and Creole heritage, with clubs famous for playing the blues, and streets full of restaurants serving up everything from spicy Bayou foods to Caribbean home cooking. Located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi delta, visitors can watch the sun set over the levees or ride on a riverboat casino.
Restaurants in Baton Rouge
1. Louisiana's Old State Capitol
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 693 reviews
Louisiana's Old State Capitol sits on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge. Completed in 1849, the castle-like fortress has been restored to its original grandeur. It houses both traditional and state-of-the-art interactive exhibits and a multi-media film presentation. Audio tours available in English, French, German and Spanish. Free admission.
Reviewed By BHartMich - Northville, United States
We walked in on a whim, and enjoyed a short time walking around the old state capitol. Upon entry we were greeted by a guide who gave us an quick overview, and then gave us a sheet enabling us to do a self guided tour. We could have spent longer than the 20 minutes we did, but we wanted to walk around the city a bit more. It is a beautiful building inside and out, with some very interesting history, and well worth stopping by.
2. LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 8 reviews
LaHouse is a showcase of solutions for Gulf South homes. Visit LaHouse on the LSU campus to: • Explore its many exhibits, cut-away reveals, and features in each room and outside the buildings and grounds. • Learn from the educational signage, tour guide videos and free publications. • Benefit from what you discover to make your home more comfortable, energy-efficient, healthy, durable, safe, convenient and valuable. LaHouse is a unique demonstration home that depicts a range of ways that today's homes can overcome the challenges of a hot, humid, rainy climate, hurricanes, floods, and termites while providing more of what we want from our homes. It displays beautiful design and decor along with views into what's normally hidden -- 4 high-performance, energy-efficient building systems and technologies, fortified features, many green materials, healthy indoor air strategies, universal design for all ages and stages of life and more. LaHouse is a regional sustainable housing resource center and educational outreach initiative of the LSU AgCenter Extension Service. Make plans to visit LaHouse and shape your home... to shape your future.
3. Louisiana State Archives
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By louie1730 - Montgomery, United States
Gee, I was pleasantly surprised at how helpful the ladies were when I was doing research on my Grandparents...very accomodating and showed me how to view microfilm docs and make copies (much the same as Mississippi State Archives folks in Jackson)...An interesting point for those doing "real" research...Louisana marriage licenses require that both parties provide their parents names (mother's maiden), which is extremely helpful in doing ancestry research.....as a result was able to contact a distant cousin in France (he is also doing family research), and was able to track ancestors to 1625 In Southern France!
4. Old Arsenal Museum (Department of Veterans Affairs)
5. Jack & Priscilla Andonie Museum
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 1 reviews
Louisiana State University museum.
