Theater and opera houses
 Shaw
Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge
The Shaw Center for the Arts in the city of Baton Rouge
was opened in 2005 and is a venue for the performance of
the performing arts with a total area of approximately
12,000 m². The Shaw Center for the Arts also houses the
Louisiana State University Museum of Art and the
Louisiana State University School of Art Gallery. The
Shaw Center for the Arts continues to be interesting due
to its glass architecture and also leaves little to be
desired in terms of cuisine.
| Contact |
100 Lafayette Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801
www.shawcenter.org |
Baton Rouge River
Center
The Baton Rouge River Center opened in the late 1970s as
the Riverside Centroplex and is one of the largest
venues in Louisiana with a total area of 20,000 m².
Concerts, sporting events, trade fairs, theater
performances and other events take place here. The
different areas of the Baton Rouge River Center offer a
seating capacity from 1,900 to an incredible 12,000
seats for the different events.
| Contact |
275 South River Road
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 |
Orpheum Theater in New Orleans
The Orpheum Theater in the city of New Orleans was built
from 1918 to 1921 and was initially used for Vaudeville
performances. The building was built in the Beaux Arts
style and was supposed to be demolished in 1979, but
enough money was spent on the renovation and the Orpheum
Theater was renovated and reopened in 1989. Today, the
Orpheum Theater has approximately 1,900 seats and is the
venue for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the Orpheum Theater.
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Museums and exhibitions
New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
The New Orleans Museum of Art in the city of New Orleans
opened in 1911, then known as the Delgado Museum of Art.
The New Orleans Museum was designed by Samuel Marx. The
museum's collection includes more than 40,000 exhibits.
There are departments such as "17th Century Dutch
Painting" or "The Spanish Colonial Art of South
America". The greatest masterpieces in the collection
include works by Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Rodin, Gaugin
and Jackson Pollock.
| Contact |
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
www.noma.org |
Louisiana State
Museum in New Orleans
The Louisiana State Museum in the city of New Orleans
was founded in 1906 and is now spread across 5 locations
in New Orleans, but they are all located in the French
Quarter. Thus, the museum shows its exhibitions at
Cabildo, The Presbytère, the 1850 House, the Old US Mint
and Madame John's Legacy. The Louisiana State Museum
also has branches in the cities of Patterson, Baton
Rouge and Thibodaux. Everyone who is in New Orleans
should try to visit at least one of the 5 locations.
Baton Rouge Gallery
The Baton Rouge Gallery was founded in 1965 in the city
of Baton Rouge. The Baton Rouge Gallery was founded by 8
artists to exhibit their own works. It is one of the
oldest of its kind in the United States. Today over 50
artists are active in the Baton Rouge Gallery and
exhibit their works. From time to time the Baton Rouge
Gallery also hosts exhibitions of contemporary art by
other artists.
| Contact |
1442 City Park Ave
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808
www.batonrougegallery.org |
Alexandria Museum of Art
The Alexandria Museum of Art was founded in 1977 and
reopened in 1998. The Alexandria Museum of Art is far
beyond the borders of Alexandria for its large
collection of contemporary art from Louisiana. Visitors
will also find the largest collection of folk art from
Northern Louisiana in the Alexandria Museum of Art.
| Contact |
933 Main Street
Alexandria, Louisiana 71309
www.themuseum.org |
Masur Museum of Art in
Monroe
The Masur Museum of Art in the city of Monroe is located
in the former home of the Masur family. This house was
built in 1914. The museum has been in this house since
1964, but the museum has existed since 1929. The Masur
Museum of Art is the largest museum of fine arts in
northern Louisiana. The museum's collection includes
works by Miró, Picasso, Rodin and Salvador Dali.
| Contact |
1400 South Grand Street
Monroe, Louisiana 71202
www.masurmuseum.org |
New Orleans African
American Museum
Located in the Tremé neighborhood, the New Orleans
African American Museum is committed to maintaining and
promoting interest in New Orleans African American
history. The New Orleans African American Museum does
not only refer to the "slave time", but goes far beyond
it. The New Orleans African American Museum is located
in 7 historic buildings that were once a plantation.
Particularly worth seeing is the main building, which is
a stone house from 1829. A special highlight of the New
Orleans African American Museum is a donation from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, which includes around
70 exhibits such as costumes, masks and musical
instruments.
| Contact |
1418 Governor Nicholls Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70116
www.noaam.org |
Louisiana Museum of Natural
History in Baton Rouge
The Louisiana Museum of Natural History in the city of
Baton Rouge was founded in 1936 and is located on the
campus of Louisiana State University. The Louisiana
Museum of Natural History now includes a huge collection
of exhibits from the areas of minerals, textiles and
costumes, plants and insects. There are over 400,000
arthropod species here alone. However, it should be
noted that the department for textiles and costumes is
separated from the other departments.
Monuments and memorials
Poverty Point
National Monument in Epps
Poverty Point near the community of Epps in
northeastern Louisiana is a well-known archaeological
site. There are buildings from the Indian period in the
area. The found structures date from the 18th to the
10th centuries BC. Chr. And the Poverty Point is
eponymous for the Poverty Point Culture. The buildings,
which consist of hills and rings, were proposed to
UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2008. Guided tours
start several times a day from the visitor center, which
is located in the middle of the approx. 1.6 km²
facility.
| Contact |
6859 Louisiana 577
Pioneer, Louisiana 71266
www.nps.gov/popo/index.htm |
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