Membership

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 property. 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.

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The Cabildo on Jackson Square Cabildo

In the New Orleans Vieux Carre', the Louisiana State Museum maintains and operates the following:

• The Cabildo, Presbytere and the Lower Pontalba
(on Jackson Square)
• Madame John's Legacy
(632 Dumaine Street)
• The Old U.S. Mint
(400 Esplanade Avenue)
• The Arsenal, Jackson House, and the Creole House
(enter 619 St. Peter Street).

The Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum of Louisiana in Patterson and the Old Courthouse Museum in Natchitoches are recent additions to the Louisiana State Museum.

Join your friends and fellow enthusiasts
in the Friends of the Cabildo!

aviation museum

historic landmarks

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 and
special 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 taped
interviews 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

Benefits and Priviledges of Membership

• Free Admission to all public LSM buildings

• Invitations to exhibition previews and special showings

• Invitations to and discounts on cultural programs
and special events

• Discount at 1850 House Museum Store

• Volunteer opportunities

• Membership decal

• Free walking tour

Please help support Friends of the Cabildo by purchasing a membership.

The payment system is secure and accepts major credit cards.
You will be mailed your membership card and information.
Please email us with any questions you may have.

INDIVIDUAL	$35	Includes all of the benefits listed above
FAMILY	$50	Family members residing under one roof, or an individual plus one guest
DUAL	$50	An individual plus one guest
NON-PROFITS	$50	Two individuals
SPECIAL FRIEND	$75	An individual or family, plus a guest
SUSTAINING	$100	A family membership, plus two guest
CONTRIBUTING	$125	A family membership, plus four guest
SMALL BUSINESS	$125	Four dual members
PONTALBA	$250	Family membership, docent services, plus four Ghostly Galavant tickets
PRESBYTERE	$500	Family membership, docent services, plus two tickets to annual gala
CABILDO	$1000	Four dual memberships, docent services, plus four tickets to the Ghostly Galavant and annual gala