A New Angola Museum

The Angola Museum was offered an amazing opportunity this year in the form of a proposal to move to campus of the old Tunica Elementary School. This facility would allow us to create a larger, more in-depth and interactive experience for our visitors and members. Our goal with this new opportunity is to create a meaningful institution that is better able to provide more transparent educational experiences and resources for our community, based around the history of the prison's transformation from slave plantations into the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

We also hope to create more space to host community based events and pop up exhibitions with the goal of helping to further express and educate about this history and the current state of the correctional system. This new space will be designated to facilitate conversations about the future of Louisiana corrections.

We look forward to sharing more details of this venture with you in the coming months!