Call for Senior rates. Guided tours feature native craft demonstrations, music and dance performances and local cuisine. Near airport and Jean Lafitte Park. 1600 Surrey St., Lafayette, LA 70508. 10,000 authentic antiques including toys, clothes, hardware items, Coushatta Indian baskets, and elixirs.
Many items are in unopened packages or original display boxes.
Within the same building is the Louisiana Telephone Pioneer Museum which contains exhibits of equipment, tools, and telephones representing a century of telephone communication. Eighty percent of town on National Register of Historic Places. Four antebellum homes open daily. Contact tourist center for information. The museum features artifacts from steamboat era.