Museum will hold holiday open house today

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• Published: Dec 7, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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The West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson St., Port Allen, will host its annual Holiday Open House 2-4 p.m. today, Dec. 7. The museum’s grounds will be filled with activities illustrating how Christmas was celebrated on sugar plantations long ago at the end of sugar cane grinding season.

Sno-Mobile of Louisiana will be on hand to blast a patch of real snow onto the museum grounds. Gather around the snow patch any time for a visit with Jack Frost, and take part in a schedule of supervised snow activities and games.

Inside the museum, tour the ongoing Here Comes the Bride exhibit, and warm up with a cup of mulled cider and a slice of gingerbread. Then, take part in festivities including picture taking opportunities with Père Noël, holiday hands-on craft making activities and parlor games for children, dancing performed by the River Road Performance Society, scenes from The Nutcracker performed by Mid-City Dance Project, and live musical performances and carols led by Claudette Purnell’s West Baton Rouge All Parish Children’s Choir, Holy Family Catholic Church Folk Choir, the Red Stick Ringers and spiritual singer Judy Whitney Davis. A new feature this year will be a Nickelodeon Theatre featuring hilarious old-time silent films.

There will be Victorian era tableaux performances depicting holiday customs at the Creole Aillet House and open-hearth cooking demonstrations inside the Allendale Cabin.

Admission is free.

For more information, call (225) 336-2422.

Exhibition Next at LSU
The exhibit, Exhibition Next: Looking into the Future of Exhibition Design, featuring the work of Santanu Majumdar, will open with a 2 p.m. reception Monday, Dec. 8, at the LSU Museum of Art in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St.

The exhibit will continue to Friday, Dec. 12.

This is Majumdar’s master of fine art thesis exhibition.

Majumdar was inspired by artist Peter Lenunfeld’s use of building interactive software through programming and felt the need to learn how exhibition designers are going to prepare themselves for the demand of cutting edge technology.

Exhibition Next is going to be a communication tool with which the viewer will carry back information of interest in the form of e-mail. This tool cuts down carrying brochures and DVDs, which eventually land up in the trashcan. This particular system will allow the exhibit to keep track of data without filling up a physical/electronic form. The system will be possible through RFID technology.

For more information, call (225) 389-7180 or e-mail artgallery@lsu.edu.

Gary exhibit today
An exhibit of paintings by artist Rhea Gary will show 1-6 p.m. today, Dec. 7, at Crescent at University Lake, 990 Stanford Ave.
Admission to the exhibit is free and light refreshments will be served.