Only in New Orleans would bugs get their own museum — and kids love it. The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium fills its riverfront home with jewel-like beetles, leaf-cutter ant cities, a Louisiana swamp gallery and a Japanese butterfly garden where hundreds of wings drift through the air.
Brave young scientists can sample bug cuisine at Bug Appétit, shrink to insect size in Underground Gallery, and meet live critters in daily educator encounters that turn ‘eww’ into ‘whoa.’
Compact, air-conditioned and endlessly surprising, it’s the perfect partner to the Aquarium next door: the smallest Audubon attraction with some of the biggest kid reactions in town.
