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Education Announcements

Cub Scout and Webelos Day

Join us July 11 for our first-ever Cub Scout and Webelos Day! There is FREE admission for Cub Scouts and Webelos in uniform as well as discounted admission for tag-alongs and chaperones.

Overnight Adventure

Come experience family fun at the Museum as never before! The Overnight is for families with children ages 7-12. Pre-registration is required, and the deadline is July 1, 2009. Come join us!

The Science and Technology of WWII

Visit our new interactive website to learn about wartime technical and scientific advances that forever changed our world.

Operation Footlocker

Turn your students into history detectives as they ponder over the origins and uses of these intriguing pieces of WWII history.

Learning at The National World War II Museum

JUST ANNOUNCED...

Join us for a Family Overnight at the Museum. See below for further information. See you July 25!

Click here for the Registration Form and information about times, cost, deadline, and more. The registration deadline has been extended to July 17.

Click here for Overnight FAQs.

For more Overnight information, call 504-527-6012, ext 229.

The National World War II Museum is a dynamic educational resource serving the needs of teachers and students from grade school through the post-graduate level. USA Today gave the Museum its top rank as the “Best Places to Learn U.S. Military History." Exhibitions and programs allow students from all backgrounds to explore the values and beliefs—the universal concepts—that Americans and their Allies embraced during World War II.

Through Museum tours, workshops, special on-site and outreach programming, film and lecture series, and our new distance learning initiative, young visitors experience the lessons of teamwork, optimism, courage, and sacrifice that led to the Allied victory.

Utilizing an object-based learning experience, educational technology, and its world-class exhibits, the Museum uses its rich collection of artifacts and archives to take history beyond the pages of textbooks and into the hands of curious students.

The National World War II Museum is a living museum. It honors the generation that won the war by enlightening today's generation about its own potential. The Museum is dedicated to the premise that these lessons are just as valuable today as they were over sixty years ago.

Yours Sincerely,

Kenneth Hoffman,
Director of Education

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