Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium

New Orleans, United States

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Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, a facility of Audubon Nature Institute, is the largest free-​standing bug museum in the United States! Located in the historic US Custom House on Canal Street, we’re infested with fun.

History

Established in 2008.

Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium celebrates the world of bugs with 13 gallery rooms containing more than 70 live animal enclosures, 30 mounted specimen cases and a multisensory immersive theater experience. There are about 100 live arthropod species throughout the Insectarium as well as alligators and fish. Visitors can experience live insect encounters, discover cultural aspects of insects, sample exotic insect cuisine, shrink in size to see the world from a bug’s perspective, and enjoy the tranquility of a Japanese garden while watching hundreds of butterflies flit about. This one-​of-​a-​kind interactive museum is a «living classroom» designed to show how human lives are affected by the mighty Insect Kingdom.

Meet the Manager

Katie S.

Manager

Katie serves as Director of Public Relations at Audubon Nature Institute.