Follow That Food

Gallery of Exhibits

The taste of our food is just the tip of the iceberg lettuce. From the field to the table, each bite has a story that will make you appreciate it so much more.

Location: First Floor

Featured Exhibit

Food and You Market

This classic LCM exhibit is back and better than ever with a whole grocery store (yep, working registers, too) built for little shoppers to fill their carts with all kinds of meat, produce, and more.

Featured Exhibit

Creole Kitchen

You can’t have enough cooks in this kid-sized kitchen. Prep, mix, bake and broil your favorite Louisiana recipe to serve to your hungry grown-up.

Featured Exhbit

Mr. Okra’s Truck

Mr. Okra is an iconic figure and community member who has been selling vegetables and fresh fruits in New Orleans for over 50 years. We have the great honor of memorializing Mr. Okra’s legacy through a life-size replica of his famous truck. Children can step into the role of the truck driver and become Mr. Okra himself by delivering produce and fruit to different locations around New Orleans.

Featured Exhibit

Bean Machine

Simple machines work overtime moving coffee beans up and down, over and around, and underneath a giant gantry crane.

Additional Exhibits

Growing and Gathering

There is a simple but profound pleasure in gathering your own food. Kids learn this wonderful lesson as they harvest produce from the garden and crawfish from the pond.

Plinko and Gears

The Plinko and Gears gives children the opportunity to learn about the Port of New Orleans and its national and global significance of transporting food.

Scent Wall

Our Scent Wall draws on positive or negative associations that guests have with food and agriculture with activities and toys in the museum. Match the scents to descriptive words on the wall!

Corn Husker

Mimics natural processes using mechanical systems (i.e. crank and pulley system) and connects an important U.S. crop to the natural cycles and systems that produce that crop.