The National WWII Museum
Nineteenth-century brewery turned sprawling WWII campus of seven pavilions and combat aircraft.
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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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