Baton Rouge - Louisiana State University

The Andonie Museum is dedicated to sports related memorabilia, as well as artifacts and art objects significant to the history and development of Lousiana State University. The museum began with a donation of 13,000 pieces of sports memorabilia from Jack and Priscilla Andonie.

The LSU Museum of Art in Baton Rouge is located in the Shaw Center for the Arts and contains original 17th through mid-19th-century period rooms from England and America. Collections include prints and original works of art, New Orleans-made silver, Newcomb College crafts, 19th-century lighting devices, and oil and watercolor paintings.

The LSU Museum of Natural Science in Baton Rouge is located in Foster Hall at Louisiana State University. The museum features nine dioramas depicting the flora and fauna of North America and examples of Louisiana's diverse animal life.

Ten different flags have flown over Louisiana and the lifestyles and cultures of these pre-industrial Louisianians are presented at the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge.

Highlights include Louisiana Folk Architecture, a collection of seven buildings that illustrate the various cultural influences of Louisiana's settlers; The Barn with items from prehistoric times to the 20th century; and The Working Plantation, a complex of buildings furnished to reconstruct the activities of life on a 19th century working plantation.

The Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge is a 125,000 square-foot art museum theatre. The museum features more than 17,000 square feet of space with temporary and permanent collections.

The Center also features the LSU School of Art Gallery with works from Louisiana State University.