Madisonville Historic Museum

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Madisonville Historic Museum

We preserve the towns old documents, photos, founding family files as well as local Native American and Civil War artifacts. Admission to the museum is free.
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Come learn the unique history of our town and tour our 119 year old jail cells. The Madisonville Historic Museum is located in the town's historic courthouse and jail built in 1911. The building is on the National Registry of Historical Places and features displays of Civil War artifacts, Native American artifacts, Shipbuilding history as well local legends and historical information on some of the founding families.

05/09/2026

Last minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas!
Shop Local and support our Madisonville Historic Museum
201 Cedar Street by Madisonville Junior High behind the Piggly Wiggly.
Open noon to 4!

*Buy a book for your mom to write down her story with all her memories to be shared with her family and generations to come!

*Madisonville Meanderings is 169 pages of pictures of our town.

*A Village Randsacked tells the historic account of Madisonville under siege during the Civil War.

* All Around Madisonville is a book Mon can share with her children and grandchildren about our beloved town.

*Notecards
*Prints

So beat the crowds at the store and come see us to purchase a unique gift for your MOM!

I also want to invite you to shop the Maritime Museums Gift Shop as they also have unique local items.

02/18/2026

A friend of the Madisonville Historic Museum just donated a spoon he found many years ago on the David Bannister Morgan plantation site along with some military buttons!! The inscribed M and the silversmith stamp makes us certain that it is from the home of the general.

We also received another small canon ball and what is thought to be a cannon “plunger” that had been passed down several generations from a family who was part of the early settlers.

They will be placed on display in the museum for all visitors to enjoy.

Thanks to people like them who want others to enjoy tangible history of our town and its early settlers.

Come by the museum. Open noon to 4 on weekends.

01/31/2026

Did you know the first Mardi Gras Ball on the Northshore was held in Madisonville at the United Friends Benevolent Hall in 1891?
Come by to the Madisonville Historic Museum to see Royal maids themed trains and learn more about Mardi Gras in Madisonville!
Learn about the unique and important history of our quaint town!
Old Maps
Old Pictures
Dug Out Canoe
Ancestry files
And more!!

201 Cedar Street by the Junior High School
Free Admission-Donations accepted.
Open noon to 4 Saturday&Synday

01/24/2026

The museum will be closed this weekend Jan. 24-25 due to an event and inclement weather on Sunday!

10/05/2025

The Historic Museum will be closed Sunday Oct 5th.

09/13/2025

New Exhibit Alert!
* 1890’s sword and antique fish triton spear donated by Steve Chatellier
* Katrina and Issac exhibit photos by Nick Pechon and item on loan from Chris Adam
* A Dug Out found in Madisonville then refurbished and donated to the Historic Museum by George and Elena Janssen.
* Growing geneology files thanks to multiple family donations.

The Museum is open noon to 4 Saturday and Sunday.
201 Cedar St.

08/17/2025

New Exhibit coming:

Madisonville 2005 Katrina.
Pictures of the devastation created by the storm taken by Nick Pechon and the Town of Madisonville.
We are open Weekends noon to 4.
Free admission!

07/19/2025

The Museum will be closed
SUNDAY July 20th

Sorry for any inconvenience!
We will resume regular hours next weekend.
Thank You!!

06/14/2025

Looking for a great last minute Father’s Day Gift? The Historic Museum at 201 Cedar St has copies of Madisonville Meanderings by Ron Barthet. The book has many old pictures and history of Madisonville.
Open Saturday noon to 4. Closed Sunday for Fathers Day.
Come get your dad or husband a copy.

Address

201 Cedar Street
Madisonville, LA
70447

Telephone

(985) 845-2100

Website

http://www.madisonvillechamber.org/

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