Name: Behind the Barn Doors
Start: 2024-07-07T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-07T17:00:00-05:00
Location: West Baton Rouge Museum

The West Baton Rouge Museum is pleased to host Behind the Barn Doors, offered on the first Sundays of the month. The program will take place every first Sunday of the month, from 2 – 5 PM. Guests are invited into the Big Red Barn on the museum’s campus to enjoy demonstrations highlighting the craftsmanship of historic trades and agricultural practices. Demonstrations will include woodworking with Gary Hart and textile arts with Linda Collins and blacksmithing with Ben Deshotels.
As part of its cultural offerings, the West Baton Rouge Museum is hosting this program to allow visitors the opportunity to interact with the presenters who are preserving these traditional crafts. Visitors can observe demonstrations of historic tools and techniques while exploring the antique machinery on display in the barn.
Each month’s featured activities will range from old fashioned farm chores to blacksmithing, milling, woodworking, fiber art demonstrations, and more. Come take a spin Behind the Barn Doors! Sign-up sheets will be available for future workshops for those seeking a more immersive experience to hone the skills of a chosen craft.
The Behind the Barn Doors program is FREE and open to the public.