About the Museum

Louisiana State Cotton Museum is located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history and traditions of cotton cultivation and harvest. The main gallery has life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, and a recreated juke joint. Museum buildings include a farmhouse, commissary, chapel, exhibit hall, and tenant house. Exhibits include the history of cotton, and how it became the country's preeminent cash crop; its role in westward expansion; the state's first electric cotton gin; and musical instruments of the Delta blues.