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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.

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