History and Heritage in Louisiana

Peek back across the centuries, as you walk under lavish ironwork and through the lush courtyard gardens of a meticulously-restored French Quarter hotel. Touch history with a stroll and a tour of a plantation where the ways of the past are recreated. Let nature's mysteries astound and amaze with a boat ride through a cypress studded bayou. Here, in Louisiana, magic, myth and lore come alive everyday.

New Orleans Museum of Art

Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

The current exhibition being shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art consists of seventy-three antique photographs of Native American subjects, which include photographs printed from antique glass lantern slides, as well as eighty-four Native American artefacts including Navaho and Pueblo textiles, pottery and jewellery. All these images and artefacts were collected by George Hubbard Pepper, the first anthropologist/archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, between 1895 and 1905. Pueblo Bonito is America's most spectacular Native American ruin and the images and objects on display are representative of Pepper's large archive which until this exhibition had been mostly unknown, unpublished and rarely seen by the public.

Regional Military Museum in Houma, Louisiana

Louisiana has two new military museums: the Regional Military Museum in Houma and the William R. Atteridge Civil War Battleship Museum in Natchitoches. Talk to veterans at the Regional Military museum and hear firsthand accounts of military service. Vehicles on display include an M-38 Jeep from the Korean conflict and a World War II motorcycle with sidecar, and some of the weapons are fired during live-fire demonstrations. Model airplanes hang from the ceiling, and mannequins are dressed in uniforms.

William R Atteridge Civil War Battleship Museum in Natchitoches, Louisiana

The William R Atteridge Civil War Battleship Museum, in an 1860s Old Steamboat House, showcases more than 100 Civil War battleship models that represent the lifelong work of William Atteridge, one of the nation's prominent handcrafters.