is a fun and versatile interactive fitness exhibit that lets you become a part of the game! Play on your own or share the fun with someone in multiplayer mode in one of the several fitness game options. This exhibit is pure family fun! 

A truly unique exhibit to our museum! Visitors can climb, crawl and tunnel on this one-of-a-kind monster piece of equipment. Sit in the cab of this full-size sugarcane harvester and watch a video of what it looks like to harvest in the fields.

Grab a shopping cart and pick your favorite local ingredients in the market, then scan the bar code at the check-out to encourage math and reading skills through role play.

Who was Jean Lafitte and what did he bury? Dig to find pirate treasures and items from this area’s unique past!

Role play in our pretend restaurant equipped with a kitchen, dining tables and all the mock staples of a real restaurant. Seat your guests at the dining, tables, take their orders and whip up a Cajun feast for them to enjoy.

Explore the importance of the waterways of South Eastern Louisiana including Bayou Lafourche, the Gulf of Mexico, and our Estuary system.  The exhibit shows the interaction of water and land from the pumps at Donaldsonville to the Gulf of Mexico.  Children can explore pumps, operate the boom crane on an oilrig, and move locks all in a water table.  The mural depicts the landscape and wildlife of the estuary and life in Southern Louisiana

Another signature exhibit, visitors can climb, crawl, and pretend to be on a working shrimp boat. Visitors will learn about the many types of crops that the Gulf of Mexico provides, sort them into buckets and transport them to the coast for sale.

Hide in the grassy thick of this exhibit and use oversized binoculars to spot waterfowl in the museum.

Many different types of bridges exist in that bayou region. This exhibit will encourage learning the differences between beam, arch, suspension, and cable-stayed bridges and how they each perform.

The possibilities are endless for arranging these oversized gears so that they will work effectively, encouraging gross motor skills and an understanding of how gears work together to create movement.

Build a bridge with large, soft, numbered blocks in an arch shape, then knock them down and start all over again!

This two-story signature exhibit sparks their curiosity as they all about oil platforms are. Up top, they can operate a crane, fish for different types of saltwater fish, learn and what the platforms do and what the black sludge makes, like their tennis shoes, basketballs, colors, and more! Activities below include an exhibit on our Gulf seafood.

Children learn the importance of observation, concentration, camouflage, and hide & seek with this oversized mural. Can you spot all of the items from the looking glass book on the Louisiana wall map? Satsuma, pelican, okra, accordion, and more!

Step in our alligator float and toss beads to a wall of moving arms!

This exhibit invites visitors to explore the world of Cajun music while they interact with oversized floor key board.

Put on a puppet play for your friends while you watch it from behind the curtain on TV.

Interact with the plug-in electric car, sit inside and drive and don’t forget to change that flat tire! 

Take a look at all the parts of the world that make up our Cajun heritage. The pull-outs under the globe will shed light on all of the people groups that came to our southern Louisiana region to create our unique Cajun people and culture.

Kids and adults can engage in building together and build an understanding of physics, design, art and engineering.

Free play or competitions can both work on this outdoor obstacle course and outdoor fitness experiences for kids and adults! Be sure to click the QR code on the sign to get a demonstration of how the course works. 

Grab a quick birthday party gift or that souvenir for your little one. Our boutique boasts all things Cajun. Pick up your stuffed nutria, boil play set, or your little alligator key chain. 

Located just outside our front doors, this shortened OSV encourages children to learn through play with real control panel instrumentation and video footage of what boat captains see as they navigate toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Step outside and explore our re-purposed Fire Truck. Make believe has never come to life more with these two public service vehicles!

Step outside and explore our re-purposed LPSO Police Car. Make believe has never come to life more with these two public service vehicles!

Step outside and explore our outdoor playground equipped with slides and climbing features.

Work out your music ability with our xylophone and other musical instruments in this exhibit space.

A creative station using a back-lit table to put the skeleton’s bones back where they belong!

Pretend play with our drive-through bank teller exhibit. Sit in the car and talk to the teller while the teller gives you play money or calls the manager upstairs on the pretend phone.

With three backdrops, two curtains and lots of costumes & props backstage, you’re sure to put on a performance! 

Engage with the digital ATM and clerk at the desk to put your money in the vault!

Learn the importance of physics, demonstrating how lifting heavy loads is accomplished more easily by utilizing pulleys. Try one chair lift with one set of pulleys vs. the next chair lift with multiple pulleys.

Step right inside and create a bubble that goes around your whole body! 

This zone is created for children 3 & under. They can safely explore the world around them and make new discoveries.