On Veterans Day 2010, New Orleans schoolchildren sat down with World War II vets to ask questions and listen to stories at The National World War II Museum.
November 24, 2010 (New Orleans, LA) – The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s award-winning exhibition, Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War, is now on display at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans through April 24, 2011.
NEW ORLEANS, LA (November 24, 2010) –The National World War II Museum is decking the halls and dishing out double rations of Yuletide cheer with a new holiday show debuting November 26 at the Stage Door Canteen featuring the institution’s famed Victory Belles..
The National World War II Museum observes the 69th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 2010.
The Education Department of The National World War II Museum announces its 2011 Student Essay Contest theme: "Why Should We Remember Pearl Harbor?" Winners get cash prizes. Contest open to high school and middle school students.
The 1940 census forms a critical link to our shared past and provides a window into an American world only one year away from being engulfed by war.
Boysie Bollinger, longtime Trustee and one of the Museum’s biggest champions, together with the Museum’s Founding President & CEO Emeritus Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, and current President & CEO Stephen Watson, will reminisce about what it was like to be a part of the grand opening festivities on June 6, 2000; how World War II history has become a larger part of the nation’s fabric, spurring the expansion of The National WWII Museum; and the Museum's continued transformation into one of the premier cultural and educational institutions in the world.
Presented in memory of D-Day veteran and Museum friend Dr. Harold “Hal” Baumgarten, this commemoration ceremony will mark the 76th anniversary of the D-Day invasion with a solemn remembrance of the events of June 6, 1944, and conclude with a moment of silence.