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An Apollonaut travel guide
A campus in the Warehouse District.
An introduction to the Warehouse District of New Orleans, where the museum’s pavilions stand between Magazine and Camp Streets.
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Read the city from the street
The museum’s buildings stand on Andrew Higgins Drive between Magazine and Camp Streets, in the Historic Warehouse District of New Orleans. Visitors are dropped off in front of the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how a nineteenth-century warehouse sits beside glass and metal pavilions. Respect the people who live and work around it.
Brick, glass and steel
The museum began in the Weckerling Brewery building of 1888. Its later pavilions, opened from 2009 onwards, are clad in metal and glass.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made, changed and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you who built a wall or restored an aircraft, or the conditions in which they worked.
A museum chapter
The museum shows a part of New Orleans where a brewery warehouse of 1888 became the home of a museum of the Second World War.
Look at the meeting of the two: a historic commercial district and a campus that keeps growing within it.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
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