Galleries and Museums

Artspace:
Owned and operated by the Shreveport Area Regional Arts Council, ArtSpace sponsors hands on children's art workshops, galleries for the exhibit and sale of regional artists, and rotating exhibitions.

Ark-La-Tex Antique & Classic Vehicle Museum:
The museum offers more than 40 models of automotive history in both classic and antique vehicles. Exhibits are rotated every six months.

Barnwell Garden & Art Center:
A combined art and domed botanical garden conservatory dominated by tropical plants and featuring an ever-changing exhibit of works of art.

Cane River Plantations:
The Cane River National Heritage Area, established by Congress in 1994, is a largely rural, agricultural, 45,000 acre landscape known both for its historic Creole-style plantations and structures and its unique people and culture. The Oakland and Magnolia Plantations contain 67 historic structures and remnants from 200 years of plantation life.

East Bank Gallery:
This gallery features works by regional artists as rotating exhibits.

Eighth Air Force Museum:
This museum offers an historical journey from World War I to the present and features military artifacts from uniforms to aircraft.

Louisiana State Exhibit Museum:
This museum is renowned for its large murals, frescoes, and amazing dioramas that depict the history and culture of Louisiana and its Indian populations.

Louisiana State Oil & Gas Museum:
This museum displays the importance of the oil industry and its 1900 boom town is detailed as well as early Caddo Indian relics.

Mardi Gras in the Ark-La-Tex Museum:
This museum offers a fascinating display of the history of Mardi Gras in Shreveport-Bossier. The exhibits include floats, Mardi Gras royalty costumes, and all the trapping of Mardi Gras festivities.

Meadows Museum of Art:
This Centenary College museum houses a permanent collection featuring works of French academic artist Jean Despujols documenting the peoples of Indochina , as well as works by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mary Cassatt, Reginald Marsh, Alfred Maurer, Clyde Connell and George Grosz.

Pioneer Heritage Center:
Authentic 1830s-1860s buildings from the pioneer days in Northwest Louisiana.

R.W. Norton Art Gallery:
This gallery is located on a beautiful 40-acre park and features the southwest's largest collection of American Western paintings and sculptures of Frederick Remington and Charles Russell, with collections of American and European art spanning four centuries.

Southern University Museum of Art:
Over 2000 pieces of African and African-American art. The collection features African art from the major art-producing regions of Africa including: Mali , Nigeria , the Ivory Coast of West Africa, Cameroon, and the Congo .

Spring Street Historical Museum:
This museum contains the only remaining example of a Victorian cast-iron grillwork gallery in Shreveport . It features maps, videos, Civil War artifacts, uniforms and equipment from both World Wars and much more.

Touchstone Wildlife and Art Museum:
Natural habitats of more than 1,000 mounted animals of wildlife from around the world are displayed.