The National WWII Museum
Congressionally Designated National Museum · New Orleans, Louisiana
A campus of six pavilions in the Warehouse District that Congress designated in 2003 as America's official museum of the Second World War. It is in New Orleans for a specific reason: Andrew Higgins built the landing craft here, the shallow-draft boats that put troops onto beaches at Normandy and across the Pacific, and Eisenhower said afterwards that Higgins was the man who won the war for the Allies. It opened on the fifty-sixth anniversary of D-Day and has been expanding ever since. It takes two days to see properly and most visitors give it four hours.
945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130, United States
Open daily, generally 9:00 to 17:00; closed Mardi Gras Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Timed-entry tickets are booked online and sell out in spring and around D-Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Beyond All Boundaries and the USS Tang submarine experience are separate add-on tickets. Two-day tickets cost little more than one day and are the sensible purchase. US military, veterans and WWII veterans enter free. Parking is in the adjacent garage and is charged.
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