Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:379 – A. The facility known prior to June 6, 1991, as the Louisiana State Museum-Shreveport is hereby renamed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is esta
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A. The facility known prior to June 6, 1991, as the Louisiana State Museum-Shreveport is hereby renamed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is established as a facility in the city of Shreveport under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in La. Rev. Stat. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum shall be a pre-historical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the northwest region of Louisiana.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.