Big-ticket Louisiana museums and attractions with homeschool discount days — typically 30–50% off for kids, sometimes free.
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New Orleans carries Louisiana's homeschool lineup. The Louisiana Children's Museum books group field trips at $7 a person against a $22.95 gate, and the Audubon Nature Institute drops its $30 zoo and aquarium to $7.50–$15 a student for school and co-op groups. A homeschool group of 15 to 20 fills the minimums at either — and the city's free-museum density (the Cabildo, the Old U.S. Mint, the Historic New Orleans Collection) stretches a school day even further.
Upstate keeps pace. Shreveport's Sci-Port Discovery Center names homeschool groups outright at its $10-per-student field-trip rate (IMAX included), and Lafayette's Vermilionville living-history village runs $5-a-student group tours. Across the rest of the state, Louisiana's free admission days — first Sundays at the Baton Rouge art and history museums, free Wednesdays at the Audubon attractions for residents — give homeschool families a no-cost route too. Book group rates two-plus weeks ahead and gather a co-op to hit the 15–20 minimum.
Published price on the venue's own homeschool page — most under $20 per child.
The 56,000-square-foot City Park children's museum books homeschool groups at $7 a head — well under its $22.95 gate — for two hours across four play-based learning galleries. A co-op of 15 meets the minimum easily; the surrounding free City Park makes a no-cost afternoon after.
The top-ranked Audubon Zoo — white alligators, tigers, an African savanna under moss-draped oaks — books school and youth groups (20+) at $7.50–$12.50 a student, a fraction of its $30 gate. A homeschool co-op qualifies; the Aquarium & Insectarium downtown offer the same group structure.
Louisiana's science center on the Shreveport riverfront names homeschool groups explicitly in its field-trip policy: $10 a head for 10-plus students, one teacher free per ten, with cheap IMAX add-ons. The space, water, and engineering galleries anchor the region's top STEM field trip.
Lafayette's 23-acre Cajun and Creole living-history village books student groups at $5 a head — costumed artisans demonstrate 1765–1890 Acadiana life across restored and replica buildings along Bayou Vermilion. A homeschool co-op of 20 meets the group minimum.
These venues run homeschool programs but don't publish pricing online. Call before you go.
The state's flagship Louisiana-history museum in downtown Baton Rouge welcomes school and homeschool groups for standards-based self-guided field trips, but publishes the rate only on booking — a homeschool co-op should request it. First Sundays are free for everyone.
Baton Rouge's riverfront art-and-science museum — a real Egyptian mummy plus the Pennington Planetarium — names homeschool groups among its welcomed day-trip visitors on Tuesdays, with the per-student rate by reservation. First Sundays are free for everyone if you'd rather skip the booking.
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