Louisiana Children's Museum

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New Orleans, United States

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Louisiana Children's Museum Reviews | Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars (5 reviews)

Louisiana Children's Museum is located in New Orleans, United States on 15 Henry Thomas Dr. Louisiana Children's Museum is rated 4.5 out of 5 in the category children's museum in United States. Since opening its doors in 1986, the Louisiana Children’s Museum has been one of the city’s premier attractions for children. We welcome 147,000 visitors per year, engaging children, families, caregivers, and school groups in memorable interactive experiences designed to make learning fun. The Museum’s 30,000 square feet of exhibit space and programs offer children a diverse set of activities that promote learning across many disciplines – from reading and math skills to architectural ideas and the nuances of grocery shopping – through interactive play. Whether they are learning what bones they use to ride a bike, alongside Mr. Bones or loading up a cargo ship in the Little Port of New Orleans exhibit, children take an active role in their own learning. Louisiana Children's Museum Mission: The Louisiana Children’s Museum promotes hands-on participatory learning for children of all ages. Encouraging discovery through observation, inquiry, creative construction, role-playing, problem-solving and free play, the Museum motivates children to develop their cognitive, physical and social skills while enjoying fruitful interaction with adults and peers.

Address

15 Henry Thomas Dr

Phone

+1 5045231357

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

New Orleans, LA

Founded

1986

Amenities

Good for kidsRestaurantToilets

Accessibility

Wheelchair-accessible car parkWheelchair-accessible entranceWheelchair-accessible liftWheelchair-accessible toilet

Open hours

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Chasity J.

The new Louisiana Children's Museum at City Park is amazing! So many books that relate to the unique interactive sections. This location is massive and even exciting for an adult. I especially love the 2nd floor where it is music and water mainly. The details about the Mississippi with so much water and creativity is nothing short of spectacular. The Mr. Okra truck in the food area was especially touching! The edible garden is still in formation, but I spotted an orange! And so I can't wait to visit again. The staff and volunteers were all warm, welcoming, and calm even in its grand opening business. I will be taking my nephews here very soon as there is something for kids of all ages. A magical place for our youth in New Orleans. I highly recommend visiting the Louisiana Children's museum even if you have no kids

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Candice Cartwright

This is just the coolest place for everyone. What a brilliant learning opportunity. I love everything about the children’s Museum. I especially love the grocery store. Kids actually going through and making their purchases. The farm and building areas are cool too!

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Jonathan Lewis

BLUF: A beautiful facility with a few neat things, but not nearly enough exhibits to warrant more than one trip. We visited with our two year old in mid July 2020. While we appreciated the extra measures in place due to COVID-19, we really surprised by the lack of exhibits in such a new and large facility. I'd estimate that only about 45% of the actual building complex is taken up by exhibits. The rest is administration, store, cafe, and classrooms meant for school groups (see pic of map). There were a few really cool exhibits (the \Move with the River\ is a notable standout), but even with capacity limitations in place due to the virus the few cool exhibits quickly got saturated with children. It really surprised us how little there was to actually see and do. It was if the few exhibits that were there were laid out in such a way to maximize the space they took, not minimize. Additionally, we expected a little bit more educational exhibits, or at videos/demos/wall plaques that could explain to school age children the science behind what they were seeing and doing. Instead, the museum had their five methods of learning (see attached image) listed all over the place... as if listing how the children were going to learn was a suitable stand-in for, you know, actually teaching/showing the children something new or cool.

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J'Nai Bayone

I brought my two year old for the first time - I hadn't been since I was a kid- and we had a great time. It had definitely improved from what I remember. City Park is the perfect place for it because nature coincides with a Children's Museum where they are discovering so much about the world. There are cool activities and things to see outside, like play things and furniture made of wood as well as a percussion garden with different sized metal drums, and when you're done, you can enjoy the park. We fed ducks and geese after taking a walk! The kids interact while enjoying different parts of one activity and they don't even realize it; how one child relies on the other. The museum shop is awesome and has a great assortment of locally authored books, among other things. We didn't leave empty handed. Go here! It's a perfect way to spend the day!

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Barry Coates

I think this is the third best children's museum we've been too. We liked it and everywhere we went was our favorite spot to be. Story time was really well done and nice to have. The painting outside the bathroom was perfect for this place. We would definitely come back if we visit again.