MUSEUM EXHIBITS

Original 19th-century Minor Family Furnishings

Memories of Terrebonne 1890-1945: Oral History, Photograph, and Artifact Collection

Mardi Gras in Houma

Southdown Plantation and the Sugarcane Industry

Native Peoples of Louisiana

Hand-made baskets, dolls, woodcarvings, and other local crafts

Collected works of Terrebonne artist Charles Gilbert

Library and Literary Collection of local author Dr. T. I. “Thad” St. Martin

Boehm and Doughty porcelain birds and flowers

Re-creation of the Washington, D.C. office of Allen J. Ellender, U.S. Senator 1937-1972

Restored Plantation Worker’s Cabin (circa 1885)

Changing art gallery shows & other temporary, loaned, or traveling exhibits

For more information or to schedule a tour of the museum, please contact the office at 985-851-0154 or visit our Tours page.

We are located at 1208 Museum Dr. near LA Hwy 311 and St. Charles St (LA 664) in Houma, 60 miles southwest of New Orleans via US Hwy 90 to Exit #200. Southdown buildings and grounds are owned and operated by the Terrebonne Historical & Cultural Society, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of history, culture, and the arts in Terrebonne Parish.