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Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens
Situated on the Burden Research Plantation, run by the Louisiana State University, is the Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens. The museum features an extensive collection of tools, household utensils, furniture, vehicles and farming implements, some outdoors and others housed in more than 20 buildings that depict the lifestyle of pre-industrial 19th-century Louisiana.
Telephone: (225) 765 2437
Website: rurallife.lsu.edu/html/hrs.html
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Opening times: 8.30am to 5pm daily, all year round. Closed New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Old State Capitol
The historic Old State Capitol Gothic building, once described by Mark Twain as being 'the ugliest thing on the Mississippi', sits on a bluff overlooking the river and today operates as a centre for political and governmental history. The building was completed in 1849 and housed the Louisiana Legislature until Union forces captured the city of Baton Rouge in 1862. The legislature returned to the building in 1882 and stayed until the new capitol was completed in 1932. The old Capitol has now been restored and houses a museum featuring state-of-the-art interactive exhibits and multi-media presentations detailing Louisiana's past and political history.
Telephone: (225) 342 0500
Website: www.sec.state.la.us/museums/osc/osc/osc-index.htm
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Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm; Sunday 12pm to 4pm. Open Mondays for special tours