The National WWII Museum marks the next phase of its $300 million expansion at a special morning ceremony March 22 when the uppermost piece of steel framework is installed on the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.
Last month, the Museum welcomed a total of 44,807 visitors, the most ever in a one-month period, and over 1,000 more than its previous record month, March 2010.
The National WWI Museum's newest exhibit, "Turning Point: The Doolittle Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea, and Battle of Midway," opens April 18, 2012 and will be on display until July 8, 2012.
As part of a unique partnership with The Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest, The National WWII Museum today announced it will host a “Salute to Freedom” contest awarding one student from each of the 50 states with an all-expense-paid trip to New Orleans.
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans marks a milestone by welcoming its three-millionth visitor.
Join educators from the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation as they dip nets in the waters of New Orleans to discover little fish, tadpoles and other animals.
Author Anne Keene joins Jason Dawsey, PhD, from the Museum's Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, for a discussion of her new book, The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
Join us for a virtual planetarium show in partnership with the Boston Museum of Science to see the night sky as they saw it on June 6, 1944, on the beaches of France.