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to the occupation of the city
by General “Beast” Butler (see
p20), including the document
ordering that all women who
insulted Union officers, wore
Confederate colors, or sang
Southern songs, were to be
locked up as if they were
common prostitutes.
The museum also possesses
a large collection associated
with the Confederate president
Jefferson Davis, from his cradle
to his military boots. Several
interesting exhibits are devoted
to the black regiments, which
served on both sides during
the Civil War. The cypress hall Replica of one of the Higgins boats in The National WWII Museum
of the museum was originally i Louisiana o The National
constructed in 1891 as a
meeting place for Confederate Children’s Museum WWII Museum
veterans to reflect on their Civil 420 Julia St. Map 4 C5. Tel 523- 945 Magazine St and Howard
War experiences and to house 1357. @ 10, 11. v St. Charles. Ave. Map 4 C5. Tel 528-1944.
and protect their relics. Open 9:30am–4:30pm Tue–Sat, @ 11, 41. Open 9am–5pm daily.
noon–4:30pm Sun. Closed public Closed Thanks giving, Dec 24 and
hols. & 8 7 = ∑ lcm.org 25, Mardi Gras. & 8 7 -
∑ nationalww2 museum.org
This activity-oriented museum
allows children to entertain This museum honors the
themselves with a variety of veterans of World War II and
role-playing games, plus other celebrates New Orleans
interactive exhibits with a shipbuilder Andrew Higgins,
didactic focus. Kids can anchor who played a major role in
their own news show in the many events, including D-Day
TV studio, go shopping in the in June 1944 (see p24). More
Modern art bench, at the Contemporary supermarket, or pilot their own than 20,000 of Higgins’s crafts
Arts Center tugboat, and there is an area were deployed in US landings
u New Orleans designed specifically for one- on all fronts during the war,
to three-year-olds. One of the
from North Africa to the Pacific
Contemporary museum’s newest exhibits is a Islands. The museum is in
Arts Center child-sized replica of the Port the middle of a $300-million
of New Orleans. expansion that will quadruple
900 Camp St. Map 4 C5. Tel 528-3805. its original size by 2015.
@ 11. v St. Charles. Open 11am– Its state-of-the-art
5pm Wed–Mon. Closed public hols. Solomon Victory
& 8 7 ∑ cacno.org
Theater, opened in
2009 as part of this
This warehouse-style center expansion, uses a
is the city’s premier space for 120-ft (36-m) screen,
all of the contemporary arts, moving props, and
from dance, painting, film, rattling seats to
and video, to performance immerse viewers in
art, theater, and music. The the war experience.
museum combines the original In the Restoration
structure with modern designs Pavilion, visitors can
to its full advantage, presenting watch as staff refurbish
a unique, modern space mostly a range of World War II
illuminated with natural light artifacts that will join
that houses four galleries and the museum’s growing
two theaters. The rotating collection of planes,
shows in the galleries usually tanks, and boats. Future
remain for four to eight halls will focus on each
weeks. There is also a café The Louisiana Children’s Museum, playground for branch of the US
providing coffee and snacks. children of all ages military service.

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