Lee had told me it would take a full day and somehow I couldn't imagine that...we got there around noon and stayed until closing at 5:00....and we were only half way done. That said, at times the experience was so overwhelming emotionally, that doing it all in one day would be tough. We do plan to revisit the area and seeing the rest of the museum. We can't wait too long though, the future expansion plans call for a 6 acre complex!
We started out with the traveling exhibit: Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town in Poland 1897-1939 [Photographs of a Small Town in Poland 1897-1939 illustrates Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust.]
Then we started the tour chronicling the escalation of WWII and our entry into it. There are short videos, booths where you can 2 minute personal stories, displays of every type and size imaginable. All the photos are on SmugMug, here are a few.
New Orleans was selected in part due to the heavy involvement of Andrew Higgins and his boat company. The LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) played a major part in D-Day and the landings on Normandy Beach.
The displays were never ending and always interesting. We walked around corners, into alcoves, up stairs, down hallways....history surrounded us.
We had just started the displays for the Pacific when the announcer started the closing countdown. We managed a couple of exhibits before finally realizing we were going to have to leave and return another day.
We headed to downtown for some dinner and stopped in an outdoor cafe with some great blues music.
A walk followed and the evening was topped off at Cafe du monde with beignets & coffee.
Here are some further links of interest:
- National WWII Museum
- Interview with Stephen Ambrose
- The Big Easy
- Stephen Ambrose, historian
- Higgins Landing Boats Memorial
- LCVP - Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel
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