LSU Rural Life Museum

The LSU Rural Life Museum channel is an educational and informational extension of the Museum.  We invite you to enjoy the content, providing a closer look at the programs, artifacts and other items of interest from the Museum.  Please follow our page, and more importantly, come visit us!.  There is no adequate substitution for the experience of visiting in person. 

The mission of the museum is to provide and sustain a publicly accessible center for the collection, preservation and interpretation of the material culture, cultural landscapes, and the vernacular architecture of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi River Valley.

The museum focuses on the life ways of the working classes of the 18th and 19th centuries. The museum also provides educational and research resources that advance an understanding of the material and cultural heritage of the regions.