This is a great place to have a birthday party, bring your children for weekend fun, host a learn night, or just come and explore on your own. The staff cateres to your age groups needs.
An " O.K." attraction..but better for children. There was not much open on a Sunday afternoon, so this was something to do.
located right near the USS Kidd, old State Capitol, and the downtown river walk complex. This a great place to add to your agenda. Park once and you can spend as much time as you like touring several facilities all with a very short walking distance.
My daughter loves to go here and when we don't go for a while, she reminds me about it. There is an iMAX theater inside, traveling exhibits, and great play rooms for almost all ages (my spouse and I play too almost every time we go). There's an interactive science room that is super cool!!!!
This place is nice. Gives you history lessons and shows you artifacts. But what this place really needs is NEW EXHIBITS. I have been coming here for YEARS, and it's the same stuff over and over. The planetarium is amazing, too, but they show the same stuff over and over. They really do need a boost. Overall though, this place is fun and there are lots of activities for children and teens.
My son and his family, including two pre-schoolers, and I visited the museum for the afternoon and were impressed with the hands-on children's section. The displays and interactive activities were not only entertaining but also genuinely educational which not all child-oriented museums are, in my opinion. We also had tickets for one of the planetarium shows and the two kids were mesmerized!
There was a lot of things you could not take photo's of ? Could not say it was good of bad. I was not impressed and would not go back. Nothing special here.
Since we were downtown on the first Sunday afternoon, we stopped to check out the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. We were glad that admission was free that day. Maybe we should have paid the small fee to see the planetarium -- we might have been more impressed. The exhibits seemed few, and since we skipped the child-centered activity areas, it didn't take long to visit. Leaving the art and science museum, we enjoyed a walk out on a modern pier and then down to the USS Kidd and the Veteran's Memorial.
We went to see the special exhibit of American Brilliant Cut glass which was amazing. This exhibit of silver mounted pieces were among the largest I have ever seen, cut to perfection, and most cased and cut to clear. There was an educational video that accompanied the exhibit. We saw a little of the other exhibits and were not impressed.
This museum was interesting with some history of Louisiana art. It is a nice way to spend a few hours. Bonus is that it is free.