Education Announcements

Cub Scout and Webelos Day

Join us July 11 for our first-ever Cub Scout and Webelos Day! There is FREE admission for Cub Scouts and Webelos in uniform as well as discounted admission for tag-alongs and chaperones.

Come experience family fun at the Museum as never before! The Overnight is for families with children ages 7-12. Pre-registration is required, and the deadline is July 1, 2009. Come join us!

The Science and Technology of WWII

Visit our new interactive website to learn about wartime technical and scientific advances that forever changed our world.

Operation Footlocker

Turn your students into history detectives as they ponder over the origins and uses of these intriguing pieces of WWII history.

Operation Footlocker

Traveling Artifact Trunks

The National WWII Museum is launching Operation Footlocker, providing schools across the country with unique hands-on opportunities to explore the history and lessons of WWII by exploring WWII artifacts. These traveling trunks, made possible by a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, are designed to supplement WWII education in the classroom.

Each footlocker comes loaded with actual artifacts from WWII (not reproductions!). Of course, no weapons or ammunition are included. But there are ration books, V-mail letters, dog tags, sand from the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, wartime magazines, a high school yearbook from the early 1940s, and many other artifacts, both commonplace and surprising. There is even a fascinating artifact from the famed Manhattan Project. Footlockers come complete with white cotton gloves for handling the artifacts and a teacher’s manual that describes each object and contains directions for conducting artifact “reading” sessions.

Turn your students into history detectives as they ponder the origins and uses of these intriguing pieces of WWII history.

Reservation and Shipping information

Footlockers can be reserved for one week at a time. Schools will only be responsible for paying return shipping fees (via UPS). Footlockers weigh approx 25 lbs. and are 27"L x 14"W x 9"H.

CLICK HERE for an estimate of shipping from your location back to the Museum in New Orleans. Make sure you use the “Detailed Time and Cost” button and enter value as $500.00.

To reserve a footlocker call 504-527-6012, x 333.

For more information email walt.burgoyne@nationalww2museum.org.

Teacher Manual

CLICK HERE to download the Operation Footlocker teacher manual in pdf format.

Best Practices and Testimonials

CLICK HERE for footlocker best practices, pictures of footlockers in action, and teacher testimonials.

Footlocker Evaluation

Already had the footlocker in your class? CLICK HERE to fill out a footlocker evaluation.

Funds for this program were provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation