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05/01/2026

04/02/2026

🌊🐟 Spring Break Fish-Themed Week! 🐟🌊

Dive into a fin-tastic week of hands-on activities, creative crafts, and wildlife fun! Perfect for families looking to explore, learn, and play this Spring Break at the Nature and Science Center. 🌿✨

📅 Daily Activities:

🎨 Tuesday: Fish Prints
Get creative with Gyotaku-style fish printing and add your masterpiece to our “Daily Catch Wall”!

📸 Wednesday: Meet “Robbie Redfish”
Stop by for a fun photo op with Robbie Redfish!

🐠 Thursday: Build-a-Fish
Design and create your very own unique fish to take home.

🔍 Friday: Scavenger Hunt
Explore and discover as you search for hidden aquatic treasures!

Bring your friends and family and make some unforgettable Spring Break memories with us! 💙

03/17/2026

Lucky You! St. Patrick’s Week at the Nature & Science Center Get ready to sham-rock and explore!

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Nature and Science Center is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a week full of green fun!

🔎 Clover Hunt Challenge We’re hiding 4-leaf clovers throughout the Nature and Science Center! Each clover has a letter, find them all and unscramble the letters to complete our St. Patrick’s word scramble.

Come in Tuesday, March 17th - Friday, March 20th to participate! Bring your friends, wear your green, and see if you’ve got the luck of the Irish. 🍀

03/14/2026

Lucky You! St. Patrick’s Week at the Nature & Science Center

Get ready to sham-rock and explore! The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Nature and Science Center is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a week full of green fun!

🔎 Clover Hunt Challenge
We’re hiding 4-leaf clovers throughout the Nature and Science Center! Each clover has a letter, find them all and unscramble the letters to complete our St. Patrick’s word scramble. Come in Tuesday, March 17th - Friday, March 20th to participate!

Bring your friends, wear your green, and see if you’ve got the luck of the Irish. 🍀

03/12/2026

Sport Fish Restoration: Conservation That Casts Forward

Your fishing license does more than get you on the water — it supports the Sport Fish Restoration Program.

Funded through license purchases and excise taxes on fishing equipment and motorboat fuel, this program provides fisheries management, habitat restoration, boating access, and aquatic education across Louisiana.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Nature and Science Center features many projects showing your license dollars at work.

Visit LDWF’s Nature and Science Center to see conservation in action.

Every cast counts. Every license gives back.

03/05/2026

🐊In celebration of World Wildlife Day this week, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Nature and Science Center is proud to spotlight our Pillars of Success, our pylon exhibits highlighting Louisiana’s greatest wildlife conservation comeback stories.

➡️From the coastal return of the Brown Pelican to the recovery of the Louisiana Black Bear, and the successful management of American Alligator, White-tailed Deer, and the reintroduction of the Whooping Crane, these stories show that conservation works.

👋Visit us to explore our Pillars of Success and see how LDWF continues protecting Louisiana’s wildlife for generations to come.

02/18/2026

The Children's Museum will be closed for spring cleaning and staff training Wednesday, February 18th and Thursday, February 19th.

We will reopen for normal business hours on Friday, February 20th.

The Nature and Science Center will remain open with normal business hours all week. See you soon!

02/13/2026

Happy Galentine’s Day to all the bold and brilliant females out there!

Today we’re celebrating one of the Gulf Coast’s iconic queens, the mature female blue crab. Notice those bright red-tipped claws? That vibrant color is a sign she’s a mature, reproductive female.

Strong. Distinct. Unmistakable.

Want to see these red-tipped queens up close? Come visit the blue crabs at the LDWF Nature & Science Center and take a closer look at one of the Gulf’s most fascinating females.

Here’s to red-tipped queens in the Gulf and beyond. Happy Galentine’s Day! 💕

01/26/2026

WE ARE OPEN TODAY

Bundle up and head on over!

*Nature and Science Center will be closed today per their regular Monday hours*