Audubon Nature Institute

The amount of money this place makes every year in donations, membership fees, daily entrance fees to the zoo & aquarium, and operating tax free as a non-profit while being publicly funded by the state of Louisiana while only paying their custodian employees $13/hr is beyond evil. Next time you visit the zoo, ask to speak to the director Scarlet and ask her directly why the people who clean the bathrooms and empty the trash cans are paid so little that they must rely on public assistance while the whole place rakes in money hand over fist.

How cool is this place!!! It's a Zoo, Aquarium, Insectarium, and a Entergy IMAX® Theatre all in one. Since we have Zoo's, Imax's, and an Aquarium in Chicago, we went for the Insectarium. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs. Though it is set up for mainly for kids, it was still pretty cool. The end is the best part, they have a Japanese butterfly garden where you can have hundreds of beautiful butterflies float about all around you. If you're still enough one might land on you, it's considered good luck. The only draw back to this Insectarium is some of the visitors. Question: for the people who don't like bugs or who are afraid of them... WHY in the world would you go to a bug museum?!?!?!? These girls were screaming every 5 min and they were loud, even the bugs were like "WTF is your problem lady, I'm nocturnal here" ok fine, it went more like "cricket, cricket" (or whatever sound they make)!! I'd go back Info Audubon Nature Institute's family of museums and parks dedicated to nature include: Audubon Park Audubon Zoo Woldenberg Riverfront Park Audubon Aquarium of the Americas Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center Entergy IMAX® Theatre Audubon Louisiana Nature Center Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species Audubon Wilderness Park Audubon Insectarium Audubon Nature Institute Foundation

While the place was clean and neat, absolutely none of the touch screens were working. Mens bathroom was filthy!! None of the hand dryers worked. Paper all over the floor. You could look at the exhibit but couldn't learn much if it had a touchscreen.