Louisiana State Museum (The 1850 House) New Orleans

We read that the Louisiana State Museum has an exhibit about the history of Mardi Gras, and about Hurricane Katrina.

The Museum is housed in several buildings, but we headed to the one in the Presbytere, which is in the French Quarter along Jackson Square, beside St. Louis Cathedral. It gets its name from being built on the site of the …

We had a late start today, again trying to adjust to a time difference (two hours later from San Fran time). Brekky was a full cooked meal, New Orleans style - crispy bacon, grits, biscuit with gravy, pork sausage, scrambled egg and oatmeal. Delicious, fattening and very filling! It was Lucy's 12th birthday, and she had strawberry pancakes with …

... and the Presbytère. The Cabildo was once the seat of the Spanish colonial government and is now a part of the Louisiana State Museum. Its matching bookend the Presbytère was designed as a rectory but eventually used as a courthouse, and is now the ...

... of several (5 I think) physically separate sections scattered around the state. One section is in fact the Cabildo/Presbytere/State Museum in downtown New Orleans. We were going to the reserve and, of course, the swamps. We were supposed to take the ...

... statue, and then went inside the St. Louis cathedral, the oldest cathedral in America.  Right next to it was the Louisianna State Museum, so we wandered through their exhibits.  They had half of it set up for a Hurricane Katrina exhibit with a ...

... of Louisiana as Williamsburg is to settlement of Virginia.  There are many historic buildings in the French Quarter. The Louisiana State museum is  located there in the Cabildo,  a building that served as the seat of government for LA ...

... of doughnuts (well French doughnuts - beignets) and hot chocolate! After demo'ing them in Jackson Sqaure we headed for a squiz around the Lousiana State Museum in particular the Hurricane Katrina exhibition before heading to the train station and ...

... - third on this site - prior two destroyed by hurricanes in 1722 and a fire about 75 years later), the Cabildo (Louisiana State Museum dating from 1779 and rebuilt after fires in 1788), Pentalba buildings (daughter of a rich man in the Spanish period), ...

... of the streets around the French quarter.  There is just enough time on my last day to pop into the Presbytere, a division of the Louisiana State Museum to see the Hurricane Katrina and Mardi Gras exhibits before getting on my train to ...

... make me a little sad that the tour with very well trained guides and actual historic facts, whose profits all go to the Louisiana State Museum was just me, but the hokey ghost tours with made up stories are always crowded. Now, let's talk food. ...

... city centre. The buildings are very pretty here with lots of colours and amazing wrought iron design features. We walked past the state museum and noticed they had a hurricane Katrina exhibit so we decided to check it out. It was fascinating to see the ...

... removed from the well to the right of the entrance, under the arcade. Since 1911 it has been a branch of the Louisiana State Museum, depicting the city's history. We came across the Faulkner House an apartment on Pirate's Alley where William Faulkner, ...