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The place behind the memory.
A brewery warehouse, a boat builder and a growing campus offer several ways into the story of The National WWII Museum.
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A museum born of D-Day
The museum opened on 6 June 2000 as the National D-Day Museum, in the former Weckerling Brewery building of 1888 in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.
Its founders, the historians Stephen Ambrose and Nick Mueller, took inspiration from Andrew Higgins, the inventor of the Higgins boat, and from Dwight Eisenhower’s tribute to him.
A national museum
In 2003 a law designated it as the official national museum of the Second World War, and its new name was confirmed in 2006.
Its pavilions now include the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, Campaigns of Courage and the Liberation Pavilion.
A place of remembrance
The galleries tell the stories of people who served, worked and died in the war. Visit them with the same care you would bring to a memorial.
The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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