Friends of the Cabildo is a private non-profit volunteer group that provides financial and volunteer support for the Louisiana State Museum, its projects and its properties. Since incorporating in 1956, the Friends of the Cabildo has grown into a large statewide membership organization, a dynamic and motivating force in broadening and supporting the aims of the Louisiana State Museum.

Louisiana has a history and culture as rich and as exciting as it is complex. The Louisiana State Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits the art documents, and artifacts which reflect that history and culture, and comprise the state's collective memory.

What do Friends of the Cabildo do?

• Provide significant annual monetary support to the Museum for its education
and exhibition programs
• Maintain an active volunteer program that supplements the Museum's
professional staff
• Operate the 1850 House Museum Store on Jackson Square
• Give daily walking tours of the French Quarter for tourists andspecial groups
• Publish a series of distinguished award-winning architectural books on the
historic districts of New Orleans
• Maintain an unique oral history project comprised of tapedinterviews with
interesting citizens on a wide range of topics
• Offer a comprehensive training program for walking tour guides and docents
• Organize annual events which raise monies for the Museum and various
projects of the Friends
• Give daily year-round tours of the 1850 House Museum