Me and my party had visited here to see how water was filtered years ago. This was a fun experience for me and my family. We had walked to the office/restroom area before we had started to walk through the museum. And we had seen...More

We were just spending 1 wknd in town, needed to kill some time on Sat morning and came across this museum on TripAdvisor. We stopped in just after opening time and had the place to ourselves. What a wonderful little museum. Really fascinating equipment, and...More

I have lived in Shreveport all my life and finally made it to the waterworks museum... its was very well done and interesting....so glad the friends of the museum are keeping it going! Thank you Liz Swaine for an awesome tour!

On Saturday we went on a field trip to the Shreveport Water Works Museum. It was a great experience. Our tour guide Kevin was the best. He was very knowledgeable. Would definitely go again and will recommend it to some teacher friends about bringing kids...More

We visited based on positive TA reviews. While you wouldn't spend hours here, it was very interesting. To see massive equipment built before the turn of the 20th Century and used well into the 80's and 90's was amazing. The gentleman that showed us around...More

Our family visited on a weekday and there were three other families visiting as well. Our guide, Kevin, was very knowledgeable of Shreveport's history. My husband who grew up in Shreveport didn't know the museum existed. The tour was engaging, enlightening and very much worth...More

This place really does have some potential to be really neat. It's free and unguided. They have a cute little railroad building there too that was fun. I think that if there were more description about what the machines were it would have been so...More

Now privately supported, the Shreveport Water Works Museum (formerly known as the McNeil St. Pumping Station) was among the earliest water purification plants to use filtration and chlorine. Opened in 1887, the plant last operated in 1992. Much of the equipment is 100 years old...More

After reading so many good reviews we decided to visit here. It's pretty interesting and would have liked to have a guide or more explanations of what the machines actually did. The machines are large and have specific jobs that are somewhat detailed with signs...More

Wonderful, unassuming museum dedicated to the business of supplying water to an entire town. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and enthusiastic and it's clear that the people who help maintain the museum and its displays are passionate about preserving this bit of Shreveport history. An...More