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# Screens out, mummies in
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/screens-out-mummies-in/
- Published: 2026-06-10T00:14:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-10T00:14:49.000Z
- Description: Visit Baton Rouge has a passport that turns "I'm bored" into a summer project— mummies, castles, science and all.
- Author: Mukul Verma

A week into summer vacation and you already know how this goes. The controller hasn't left one kid's hands. Another is somewhere in a numbing phone scroll. The summer imagined in May has arrived, only to reveal itself as a long Tuesday.

When they say there's nothing to do, you now have an answer.

**The setup:** Visit Baton Rouge offers a [free Museum Passport](https://www.visitbatonrouge.com/plan-your-visit/experience-passports/museums-trail-pass/?ref=redeyebr.com) that sends families roaming the city, checking in at local cultural sites via GPS and earning a prize at the end.

**The sites include:**

- **LSU Museum of Art**—mummies, real ones.
- **Old State Capitol**—Gothic architecture that reads like a castle. Let them see it that way.
- **Baton Rouge Gallery**—contemporary art that opens a door to a bigger creative world than the one on their screens
- **Knock Knock Children's Museum**—hands-on science for the younger set
- **LSU Rural Life Museum**—Louisiana history you can walk through, not just read about

**The one thing to know:** The passport is free to download, but it does not cover admission or offer discounts at participating museums. Budget accordingly before you load them in the car.

**The bottom line:** A summer in which a child stands inside a 19th-century Gothic statehouse and comes face to face with a mummy is, by any reasonable standard, an improved summer. The passport strings together those small revelations, one check-in at a time.