Burden Museum and Gardens, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

One of buildings in the Burden museum and gardens

I drive to my work place pass through Essen Lane every day, without knowing there are museum and gardens.

Essen lane is in the middle of Baton Rouge city, Louisiana where museum and gardens locate.

Burden family donated their 440 acres (178 hectares) land to the Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1966.

The university (LSU), then developed the land to be:

- LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens

- Windrush Gardens

- The LSU Rural Life Museum

The modified land is a kind of “window” to observe Louisiana in the past, now days and future for me.

A house of rural life in the past

I saw a house with a rock chair in Rural life museum. Actually, I found many houses have two rock chairs in rural areas in Louisiana current days.

Two rock chairs with small table in the middle. Older Louisiana, usually couple drink a cup of coffee or tea while sitting in the rock chairs in the afternoon. Sound like romantic life.

Flowers in the botanical garden

We could walk through the gardens, may be miles, and find:

- woodland

- wetland

- research facilities.

- rose garden

- herb gardeners

- ginger gardeners

- fruit

- vegetables

Finally, I think that visiting Burden Museum and Gardens is a good start to who eager to know about cultural past of Louisiana, especially who loves flora, fauna and heritage of agriculture in Louisiana.