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- Voorsanger Architects PC won the competition and was awarded the commission to build the new campus. Upon winning, the firm joined hands with Edward C. Mathes from Mathes Brierre Architects to form the design team for The National World War II Museum.
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The museum is located in part in the former Weckerling Brewery, designed by local architect William Fitzner, which was renovated and opened as the D-Day Museum on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day, focusing on the amphibious invasion of Normandy.
Feb 21, 2012 · The location was selected because it was New Orleans that Andrew Higgins built the landing craft used in the amphibious invasions; the landing craft which President Eisenhower believed was one...
Stephen Ambrose and Nick Mueller opened The National D-Day Museum on June 6, 2000, ultimately designated "America’s National WWII Museum" by Congress.
WWII Museum. In 2003 the United States Congress designated the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the National World War II Museum. Earlier that year an international master plan competition was held seeking designs to expand the museum campus.
- Like Walking Into A Time Machine
- “We Do Rotate Artifacts Often”
- Enhancing The Presentation of The War
- An Ever-Expanding Museum
Visitors entering the main atrium of the museum will immediately feel as if they have landed in another time. While museum planners opted not to utilize an existing older structure, as is common with many European military museums, the artifacts inside are akin to a time machine. Visitors are treated to the museum’s current collection of World War ...
As with many museums, only a fraction of the total collection and holdings are on display at any given time. They are rotated on a regular basis to ensure that repeat visitors will always find something different. “The museum is only able to permanently display a small percentage of its holdings,” says Toni Kaiser, assistant director of collections...
The museum is charged not only with preserving the history of the GI but also looking at ways to enhance its presentation of the war. In addition to its artifacts, the museum makes efforts to connect visitors to the past in several ways. These include two restaurants, the upscale American Sector and the simple but quaint Soda Shop, the last blurrin...
For those interested in preserving history, the museum plans to allow visitors a closer view in the Restoration Pavilion, where the restoration and perseveration efforts can be seen firsthand. Already, the first item to call the space home is being restored: a Higgins Industries PT Boat that served in the Mediterranean during World War II. “Our exp...
Design Principal: Bartholomew Voorsanger. Lead Design: Martin Stigsgaard, Masayuki Sono. Museum Consultant: Peggy A. Loar. Design Team: Peter Miller, James Macdonald, Radoslaw Krysztofiak , Andrea Wiedemann, Mark Wagner, Reema Pathak, Van Hsin-Hung Tsao, Issei Suma, Won Jun Jung, Anastasiya Konopitskaya. Additional Competition Staff
The Theater and Exhibition Spaces present the stories of World War II to an international audience while preserving materials for research and inspiring future generations to apply the lessons learned from the most complex military operation ever staged.
