Self - Guided Whitney Museum Plantation

Come explore the Whitney Plantation, which is America's first Slavery Museum and used as a backdrop in the film Django Unchained.

Duration

5.5 Hours (Transportation time included.)

About

• Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in Louisiana dedicated to understanding the facts of slavery.
• As a site of memory, with a focus on the lives of the slaves and their legacies, visitors can experience the world of an 1830s sugar plantation through the eyes of the enslaved people who lived and worked here.
• During the 90-minute walking tour, visitors will gain a unique perspective on the lives of the enslaved people on a Louisiana sugar plantation, learning their stories through the real oral histories recorded by the Federal Writers Project during the Depression.
• On the National Register of Historic Places, the site includes the last surviving example of a true French Creole Barn, what is believed to be the oldest detached kitchen in Louisiana, and the Big House considered the earliest and best preserved raised Creole cottage in Louisiana, all built by slaves.
• With the original structures nestled in a working sugar cane field, visitors are sure to marvel at the authentic representation presented at Whitney.
• Through these restored buildings, museum exhibits, memorial artwork, and thousands of first-person slave narratives, Whitney Plantation gives a voice and respect to the slaves, who lived, worked, and died here.

What to Bring

Please dress for weather conditions.