Higgins boats and a historian
In 1964 Dwight Eisenhower credited Andrew Higgins, the inventor of the Higgins boat, with winning the war. The historian Stephen Ambrose later discussed the idea of a museum with fellow historian Nick Mueller, and the museum was planned in New Orleans.
6 June 2000
The National D-Day Museum was dedicated on 6 June 2000, 56 years after D-Day, in a brewery warehouse built in 1888. In 2003 a law designated it as the country’s official museum of the Second World War.
Pavilion by pavilion
From 2009 the museum grew across the street grid of the Warehouse District, adding a theatre, a restoration pavilion, the US Freedom Pavilion, the Campaigns of Courage galleries and, in 2023, the Liberation Pavilion.
