Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium

Audubon Institute is located at 435 Canal St, New Orleans, LA..

The unique Audubon Insectarium exhibits an important but distinctly less cuddly selection of animals. Built inside the carriageway of Canal Street's historic Customs House, the museum seeks to present the six-legged-animal kingdom as fascinating rather than creepy and/or crawly. Since most insects lack human-scale interest, many of the exhibits rely on oversize sculptures to make their...

Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium

Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, located in the U.S. Custom House on Canal Street, encourages you to use all five senses as you explore North America’s largest museum devoted to insects and their relatives. You’ll discover why insects are the building blocks of all life on our planet and along the way, you’ll be shrunk to bug size; wander through a mysterious Louisiana swamp; join the...

While many folks try to keep anything that creeps, crawls, or flies out of their lives, the Audubon Insectarium is working to bring visitors eye to eye with the creepy and crawly. Thousands of mounted specimens and live insects make up the collection of interactive exhibits that are housed in the largest freestanding museum of its kind in the United States. Audubon Insectarium exhibits include...