West Baton Rouge Museum

West Baton Rouge Museum is a wonderful, family friendly place to visit. It is loaded with history of the area! Be sure to check out the huge gear from Cinclaire Plantation at the front of the building. Once you enter the main structure you will learn about one of the leading revenue sources for Louisiana, sugar cane.
There are other buildings on the property to tour including a plantation store!
In the fall, the grounds are filled with vendors and educators for the annual Sugar Fest! This is a GREAT family festival… kids young and old love it! Great storytellers like Judy Whitney Davis are on hand to bring history alive!
Another interesting tidbit is that the West Baton Rouge Museum is free for residents of West Baton Rouge parish!

This place is a must-​visit, if you are visiting the Baton Rouge area. A ton of history behind it! Here you can learn about the sugar milling industry in the area. The historical interpreters when I went were great and did a great job acting out the duties of the family that once lived there. During Christmas, you will get to meet Papa Noël, too, so come here during the holidays and when they have special events going on! If you are a West Baton Rouge resident… you receive free admission!

Great surprise! I was visiting my daughter who lives in BR and while I was at the laundromat I picked up a paper and saw this museum mentioned in it. I had a few hours to kill, so I drove across the Mississippi to this lovely little museum.
They had very good displays and a nice little movie about the processing sugar. I had no clue how sugar was processed, so it was all really interesting to me.
The museum also had the Aillet House, a plantation owners house circa 1830 with some original furnishings and authentic period furnishings. In the back there were slave cabins.
The best part was that I went on a HOT weekday afternoon and nobody else was there so the nice tour guide spent lots of time explaining things and answering my questions. I am a curious person and probably asked hundreds of questions which he answered to my satisfaction and then would tell me other things he thought would interest me. A+ and major kudos to my tour guide.