West Baton Rouge Museum

The West Baton Rouge Museum is a regional history museum located in Port Allen, Louisiana. We are an educational resource committed to researching, collecting, preserving, and presenting artifacts, documents, art objects, and the like that reflect the history and cultural heritage of West Baton Rouge Parish and the surrounding areas for the benefit of the general public and future generations.

Exhibits

On September 10th, the West Baton Rouge Museum will open Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic. It is an intimate and compelling photographic portrait of Billie Holiday, the consummate jazz and blues singer and one of 20th century music's most iconic figures. The photographs were taken in April 1957, at a significant moment in her life and just two years before her death at the age of 44. Beautifully captured through the lens of photographer Jerry Dantzic, the exhibition provides a rare glimpse into Billie Holliday's public and private life.

Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Jerry Dantzic Archives.

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