Best Museums & Educational Spots for Kids

Explore the best best museums & educational spots for kids options for kids and families in Thibodaux

Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center

Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center

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Bayou Country Children's Museum

Bayou Country Children's Museum

Cajun culture through hands-on play. Interactive kids' exhibits on Cajun culture, including a floor piano, giant bubbles & a duck blind.

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Laurel Valley Village Store

Laurel Valley Village Store

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E.D. White Historic Site

E.D. White Historic Site

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Ardoyne Plantation

Ardoyne Plantation

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Oak Alley Plantation

Oak Alley Plantation

Historical plantation site with tours. Former plantation with exhibits about local history and sugarcane cultivation, plus guided tours.

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Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum

Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum

Exhibits of coastal industries & a shop. Small waterfront museum with exhibits on bayou-related industries, plus a gift shop & back porch.

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Terrebonne Folklife Culture Center

Terrebonne Folklife Culture Center

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Southdown Plantation & Museum

Southdown Plantation & Museum

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Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site

Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site

Former sugar plantation with daily tours. An 1805 sugarcane plantation with daily guided tours of the big house, the grounds & a slave cabin.

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Regional Military Museum

Regional Military Museum

Military history exhibits & vehicles. Exhibits, vehicles & memorials devoted to Louisiana military history in a modern warehouse space.

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Whitney Plantation

Whitney Plantation

Slavery museum with restored buildings. Plantation museum focused on slavery, with restored buildings & educational guided tours.

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Kenner Planetarium and MegaDome Cinema

Kenner Planetarium and MegaDome Cinema

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Carousel Gardens Amusement Park

Carousel Gardens Amusement Park

Amusement park with an antique carousel. Long-running amusement park featuring 16 rides, including an antique wooden carousel with horses.

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Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Modern art in a tranquil park setting. Modern sculpture garden on 11 acres in New Orleans City Park with pedestrian paths & water features.

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New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans Museum of Art

Extensive art exhibits in a grand space. More than 40,000 pieces by global artists of various historical periods in a grand marble building.

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Louisiana Children's Museum

Louisiana Children's Museum

Interactive exhibits & play areas. Indoor & outdoor interactive exhibits include an art studio & a mock cafe, plus play areas.

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The Professor Longhair Museum

The Professor Longhair Museum

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Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

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Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum

Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum

Complex devoted to 19th-century life. Plantation complex of historic buildings preserves 1800s life with artifacts, exhibits & tours.

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Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Books, crafts, apparel & other items. Compact shop at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art selling books, artworks, crafts, clothing & more.

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The National WWII Museum

The National WWII Museum

Military exhibits, planes & 4-D theater. Multi-building museum with interactive submarine exhibit, planes, 4-D theater & eatery downstairs.

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Free People of Color Museum

Free People of Color Museum

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Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes & Culture

Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes & Culture

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Museum of Death New Orleans

Museum of Death New Orleans

Funeral practices & criminal memorabilia. Macabre collection featuring mortuary equipment, crime scene pictures & displays on serial killers.

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New Orleans Storyville Museum

New Orleans Storyville Museum

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Backstreet Cultural Museum

Backstreet Cultural Museum

Celebration of local history & culture. Small museum exploring New Orleans traditions, with exhibits on brass bands, jazz funerals & more.

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Mardi Gras World

Mardi Gras World

Complex where Mardi Gras floats are made. Vast, 400,000-sq.-ft. complex where Mardi Gras floats are made & stored, with hourly tours.

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Audubon Insectarium

Audubon Insectarium

Kid-friendly museum with insect exhibits. Interactive insect exhibits, bugs in action & an IMAX theater all in a U.S. Custom House.

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Audubon Aquarium

Audubon Aquarium

Varied marine life, plus insects. Insect & marine life exhibits plus a 400,000-gallon tank with reefs, sharks & a walk-through tunnel.

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The Presbytère

The Presbytère

Mardi Gras & Hurricane Katrina exhibits. State museum with Hurricane Katrina & Mardi Gras exhibits in a former courthouse built in 1813.

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Gallier House

Gallier House

Lavish, 19th-century house-turned-museum. Built in 1857, this opulent, furnished house provides a glimpse into the life of an affluent family.

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JAMNOLA

JAMNOLA

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LSU Museum of Natural Science

LSU Museum of Natural Science

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Knock Knock Children's Museum

Knock Knock Children's Museum

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USS KIDD Veterans Museum

USS KIDD Veterans Museum

Veteran naval ship with history exhibits. This veteran battleship-turned-museum features naval history exhibits, ship models & memorials.

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Louisiana Art & Science Museum

Louisiana Art & Science Museum

Range of science & fine-arts exhibits. Museum complex with kids' science exhibits, a planetarium & galleries spanning the history of art.

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