LSU Rural Life Museum, Agricultural museum in Baton Rouge, United States.
The LSU Rural Life Museum occupies part of the 400-acre Burden Museum and Gardens in Baton Rouge. Its outdoor section is divided into three areas: the Working Plantation, with a commissary, overseer's house, slave cabins, sick house, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, sugar house, church and grist mill; the Southern area, with the Neal dogtrot house, Stoker barn, Stoner Athens Cabin and a pioneer cabin from Washington Parish; and the Acadian area, with two Acadian-style homes, one a replica and the other built by the Bergeron family between 1800 and 1815 on Bayou Lafourche and moved to the museum in 2005.
The museum preserves materials from the 18th and 19th centuries and holds the largest collection of regional building styles from that era. These buildings were brought to the site from their original locations to document Louisiana's rural heritage.
The buildings show how people in rural Louisiana communities lived and worked in earlier times. You can see how homes were furnished and what tools were used in daily life.
The site is easy to reach from Baton Rouge and offers plenty of space to walk between the different buildings. Plan for at least two hours to explore the structures and their contents.
The Barn, an interior warehouse open to the public, was moved to the site from the Stoker House property in Sabine Parish after being donated in 1999. It holds farming equipment, tools, furnishings and utensils used in rural Louisiana life rituals in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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