New Orleans
Field Trips

Interactive and engaging, at the all-new, state-of-the-art Audubon Louisiana Nature Center features fun educational exhibits, a planetarium, classroom pavilions, and boardwalk trails with unique opportunities to experience the outdoors.

Audubon Zoo cares for animals from around the globe with unique natural habitats exhibits such as the award-winning Louisiana Swamp and Jaguar Jungle, showcasing the relationship between people and nature. 

The Backstreet Cultural Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection related to New Orleans’ African American community-based masking and processional traditions, including Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, social aid and pleasure clubs, Baby Dolls, and Skull and Bone gangs.

The Contemporary Arts Center is a multidisciplinary arts center dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the art of our time.

8.5 acres of hands-on, brain-building exhibits, inside and out. Exhibits with focuses in Arts and Culture, Health and Wellness, Sustainability, and Early Learning and Literacy.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo has three floors of exhibitions cover the history of Louisiana by featuring artifacts such as documents, paintings and 3D objects from the museum’s vast collection.

New Orleans Botanical Gardens features over 2,000 plants from around the world. Surrounded by the nation’s largest collection of mature live oaks, most of the vegetation is native to Louisiana, but many other more exotic species with the Rainforest exhibit in the conservatory.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrates jazz in the city where it was born. Through dynamic interactive exhibits, research facilities and engaging musical performances, the music New Orleans made famous is explored in all its forms.

The New Orleans Museum of Art has an impressive permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works

The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum showcases its extensive collection and provides interpretive educational programs to present and preserve the rich history of pharmacy and healthcare in Louisiana; past and present.

The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve the history and elevate the art, culture, and contributions of African Americans in New Orleans and the African Diaspora.

The Presbytere, part of the Louisiana State Museum, houses a collection of Mardi Gras artifacts and memorabilia that tells the story of the Mardi Gras in a high-tech, interactive, permanent exhibition.