The National WWII Museum engages with learners from all across the world through a variety of online and distance learning programs to connect audiences with WWII history and honor the generation who sacrificed so much to secure our freedom.
New York’s Peter and Mary Kalikow – the first donors in the history of The National D-Day Museum – have pledged an additional $1 million to the institution now known as The National WWII Museum to support its $400 million Road to Victory Capital Campaign, which funds the campus expansion.
Beginning with Memorial Day on May 31, a series of major events, ceremonies, special exhibits and lectures will be taking place at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The commemorative period will culminate with a weekend of special events June 5-6 to honor the 66th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy and to celebrate the Museum’s 10th anniversary.
Walking the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, imagining the unlived lives of the D-Day dead.
A new documentary follows D-Day veterans on a return visit to Normandy.
Join author Alex Kershaw for a presentation about his new book The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II.
Join author Nigel Hamilton for a presentation about the third book in his “FDR at War” trilogy.