The National World War II Museum in New Orleans unveiling its new, $47 million exhibit this weekend.
Actor Tom Hanks noted that when it opened in 2000, what is now the National World War II Museum in New Orleans was little more than “two brick warehouses, a Higgins boat and a tank.”
Hanks is a two-time Best Actor Oscar winner, is a Kennedy Center honoree and has been presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But he wasn’t the biggest star at Friday’s dedication. The real stars were sitting in the front row, looking at Hanks as he spoke. Magnificent, indeed. Some 23 years and $420 million later, the Museum is one of the nation’s most-visited, drawing millions of visitors to the Crescent City, and having an estimated $2.4 billion in economic impact over the past 20 years.
Visitors are also taken inside the world of Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish teen whose story of living in hiding from the Nazis from 1942-1944 was brought to the world through her diary, published by her father, Otto, the only member of the Frank family to have survived the Holocaust. The new pavilion also looks at postwar America, including the challenges faced by Black Americans and those who had fought for freedom overseas but were so often denied it at home. The Cold War and the lasting impact of World War II are also examined.
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