Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society is dedicated to preserving the Spanish language, legends, crafts, customs, folklore, rituals, music and history of our Spanish Isleños heritage by: maintaining an Isleños museum and multi-cultural village; promoting an annual student of Isleños heritage; and promoting annual Museum Days, a three-day event, to give students hands-on knowledge of the early Isleños /and their way of life.
Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society of St. Bernard is organized to preserve, interpret and promote the language, heritage and cultural traditions of colonists from the Canary Islands who settled in Louisiana between 1778 and 1783 and founded the Parish of St. Bernard in 1780. Further, the Society shall document the historical and cultural evolution of the Canarian colonists and their descendants in St. Bernard, interpreting that evolution through the interaction of the Canarian Descendants Community with the natural environment, Native Americans, French Africans, other Spaniards, Germans, Sicilian Italians and all other ethnic groups which have contributed to the ethnic diversity of the region. The Society shall develop, or provide for the development of, Los Isleños Museum Complex, wherein the heritage and cultural traditions of the Canary Islanders shall be publicly interpreted, in addition to the manner in which the Canarian Descendants Community has adapted and become an important element of the cultural diversity of lower Louisiana. The Society shall fund an annual scholarship to be awarded to a member of the Canarian Descendants Community entering a course of studies in a university or college.