USS KIDD Veterans Museum

Excellent Museum to visit for the whole family. The museum itself has so much to see, but the actual battleship is a sight to behold. We thoroughly enjoyed exploring the entire ship from top to bottom. Honestly you could take a few days to just read all of the info all around the ship. Make sure you were pants and sneakers since there will be a lot of walking in tight quarters. The gift shop also has a lot of cool souvenirs that you will enjoy later. Highly recommend this for families.

Great stop when traveling through Baton Rouge! The staff was so friendly and super helpful. The museum is perfect for any US Military, naval and maritime history buff. The Large model ships were a huge hit with my kiddos. The destroyer was great and my kids just loved exploring it. Beautiful views of the Mississippi. The grounds were very well kept. Fantastic historical experience.

Great museum. You can explore almost the whole ship, very informative, all staff is great! Limited free parking in front of the museum. We arrived around noon on Saturday and parked with no problem. You can easily explore downtown on foot from here.

It was good. Respectfully I didn’t touch anything since they had asked us not to but would’ve been nice due to the fact a lot of other ship museums allow you to touch things. Certain area were cut off making the tour shorter. Overall it was alright.

Really nice ship tour experience. My 8 and 12 year old liked this better than other ships we have toured because the ship map and tour information make it easy to know what you are looking at. This ship is really well preserved and neat to tour. Public parking lots are nearby and offer pay by plate options.

This is my recommended spot in Baton Rouge. It's been maintained, and I think the condition is good. The inside of the ship is very tight so please be careful.

10/10 recommend! The ship was an amazing experience, we even took our 3 & 1 year old on it (there are latter's you will have to climb down/ up so be aware) and the price to go was a only 14 a piece. Inside the building was lots of cool things to see to!

The museum is worth a stop, lots of information. Ship will be going into dry dock for repairs, worth the stop is she is still in the weather. Beward lots of ladders.

This museum and ship are amazing! Reasonable admission price. Limited parking in front, the nearest lot is more than a block away.

The ship is dry docked, but the walkway to it is paved and not covered, so be aware of that on hot days. The ship is not handicap accessible at all. Keep in mind, young and healthy people worked on this ship, so narrow walk ways and steep narrow stairs inside. No air conditioning inside the ship.

Inside the museum is amazing. It is air conditioned. Great displays, well laid out and maintained. Employees are friendly. Prices in the gift shop are reasonable. I would recommend the museum for everyone and the ship for those who are in good shape.

Wonderful sight to relive and honor those who served in WWII. The historical record and artifacts are profound, moving and educational. The ship is not only accessible, but in excellent condition. A really eye opener. The grounds on site and museum building are impeccably maintained. We accessed from disembarking on a riverboat cruise. This a a cannot miss experience.

Really cool! Definitely worth you time and my kids are enjoyed it too. You get to walk through the boat and and go up and down and explore. Sitting on the Mississippi River there are amazing views of the river and some bridges. Lots of history here!

Museum was phenomenal; it opens from 9:30am to 3:30pm. The displays are well put together and just awesome. Complete with uniforms personal and unit citations and implements. They have reconstructed vessels and ships that are historically important. And of course the USS Kidd is in great shape they are continuing to refit it and maintain upkeep. They do awesome immersion techniques by have sounds over the 1-mc, radio transmissions, sonar noise, and Morse code etc. it makes you feel like your traveling back in time. Easy self guided tour as well. Elijah was my guide on the ship very knowledgeable and friendly helped me out with questions, you could tell he is passionate about the project. Cody met me at the entrance and as well was friendly helpful and was kind enough to give me a ticket even though it was getting close to closing time. Recommend for every veteran and military history buff and lover of World War two, Korea era history.

We visited the USS Kidd back in May. The museum portion is great and very informative. Since the Kidd is a destroyer it is tight navigating through the ship for the tour. Just be careful! I could see it being harder to speak to a group about a point in the tour because there’s not a lot of gathering space at each point so you may want several people with the tour info if you have a larger group.

The team at the ticket counter / gift shop were really nice!

Parking was a little difficult. There is limited parking right in front of the museum but if you miss it and you’re unfamiliar with the area and the one-way streets it’s a bit difficult to circle around back to the museum.

Really cool museum highlighting the destroyer USS KIDD and the local war effort for WW II. Very informative and the ship looks just like it did in the 40s. Highly recommend.

Great little museum and self-guided tour of the ship. The tour was very thorough and covered most of the ship. We only had an hour, which was just enough time to get a good look at the ship itself without lingering in any one area too long. I plan to come back another time to look at the museum and take a little more time onboard the Kidd.

So cool you definitely need to check it out! We went on a bad day it's super hot inside the ship! Heat index 115!!! Lots to see lil shop inside was neat! So much to look at!

fun experience. I had a great time climbing up and down on the ship

Visited whilst in Baton Rouge for a day. Very interesting exhibits in the museum providing personal accounts of servicemen. The USS KIDD itself has been really well restored and really provides a great insight into what life would have been like on board. Well worth the visit.

Had an absolute BLAST at the USS Kidd museum! And at only $14 apiece for adults, you can't afford to miss this! You can virtually free-roam the entire ship in this tour, sit in the gun batteries and work the wheels and levers, it's awesome, and will give anyone a deep appreciation at what our sailors and marines went through in the second world War, Korea, and in the Vietnam theaters of naval war. Don't miss this one!

My 4 year old son had a blast! Both in the museum and the USS kid! Recommend it for something fun, educational and interesting for the family.