The National WWII Museum
Main entrance of the museum in 2015 | |
Former name | D-Day Museum |
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| Established | June 6, 2000 |
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 29°56′35″N 90°04′13″W / 29.94306°N 90.07028°W |
| Type | Military history museum |
| Visitors | 706,664 (2017) |
| Website | nationalww2museum.org |
The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2003. The museum is an affiliated museum of the Smithsonian Institution as part of its outreach program. The museum saw 406,251 visitors in 2010 and nearly 700,000 in fiscal year 2016.