Sights & Attractions in Side Trips from New Orleans

Things to Do in Lafayette

Name	Category	Location

Acadian Cultural Center A unit of the National Park service, the center traces the history...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette

Acadian Village Most of the structures at this re-creation of an early-19th-century...	Museum Village	Lafayette

Acadiana Center for the Arts This multicultural arts center hosts art exhibits, musical performances...	Arts / Performance Venues	Lafayette

Acadiana Park Nature Station Naturalists are on hand in the interpretive center at this three-story...	Parks	Lafayette

Alexandre Mouton House and Lafayette Museum Built in 1800 as the maison dimanche, or "Sunday house," of town...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette


Children's Museum of Acadiana Good on a rainy day or to burn off extra energy in the kids...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette

Lafayette Courthouse The courthouse contains an impressive collection of more than...	Government Buildings	Lafayette

Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium This sparkling natural-history museum includes changing exhibitions...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum Inside a gleaming glass-clad box built in 2003, this museum on...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette

St. John the Evangelist Cathedral This cathedral, completed in 1916 (construction began in 1912)...	Religious Sites	Lafayette

Vermilionville Directly behind the Acadian Cultural Center, this living-history...	Museums / Galleries	Lafayette
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