Museum
The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Nineteenth-century brewery turned sprawling WWII campus of seven pavilions and combat aircraft.
This guide to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans starts with historian Stephen Ambrose asking Congress for four million dollars to build one small room of D-Day oral histories, and getting handed a derelict nineteenth-century brewery instead. It traces the Weckerling Brewery's own short life under architect William Fitzner before it sat empty for a century, and the small museum that finally moved into its shell in 2000. You will hear just how far that one modest ask ended up growing.
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