DDay Museum in New Orleans
 

Has anyone been to this museum? Can you tell me anything about it? Thanks.

What would you like to know?

As its name implies, it covers primarily the invasion of Europe to the end of the war. There is some coverage of the Pacific War and almost none of the War in Eastern Europe.

It may have to do with overinflated expectations I had but I was less impressed with it than I had expected to be.

Just curious -- why a DDay Museum in New Orleans? There's one in Normandy, as one would expect, associated with the American cemetery, etal., and the rather new WWII memorial in Washington DC, but what is the logical connection between DDay & New Orleans?

The D-Day landing craft (Higgins boats) were built in New Orleans. Without New Orleans, no D-Day!

It's a FANTASTIC museum and has different Atlantic (normandy) and Pacific (various island) sites. It takes at least a couple of hours to visit and most people spend more.

We spent several hors at the museum, and thought it was very worthwhile.

As I recall, there was a shipbuilder in NOLA that was very instrumental in the D Day craft.

I agree that this is an excellent museum and a good use of your time in NO. My husband and I really enjoyed it. We were pleasantly surprised at how well it was done.

I thought it was excellent. I happened to be there by coincidence while several veterans of that war were touring the museum and was very moved by their reactions to the exhibits. I learned a lot about the war and came away with new respect for the generation that went through it.

Well, I looked it up online. They have their own website. Apparantly Stephen Ambrose had something to do with the fundraising for the museum and he was a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. And the boats. Check out this website.

http://www.ddaymuseum.org/about/

It will give you some info about the place. It is a gorgeous museum. I am so glad I looked it up b/c my husband, being a huge WWII History buff, will put this on his "must see" list when we visit.

We spent half a day there, and we could have easily spent a whole day. We learned so much more about WW2 and D-Day that we'd never learned in history classes. It was definitely a day well spent!

This is a fabulous museum. My nephew and I spent four hours there but did not nearly see it all. We had to leave for another appointment but I hope to go back someday and see the rest.

I visited it last year with my BF, a Brit; he is a history buff and said that the museum had very few photographs that he had not already seen, and was also interested in how little the merchant marine was credited throughout (as well as other members of the Allied powers). I was impressed with the general layout and with the more humanizing details that the museum includes, as well as with the pictures (most of which were not familiar to me). I think if you already know a lot about D-Day, you may be disappointed, but I found it worthwhile and impressive.