WWII comes alive: Museum expansion provides realistic experience (New Orleans)
NEW ORLEANS — Stephen Ambrose’s “love song to democracy,” as the American historian likened The National World War II Museum, has new sound effects and sensory perceptions so real you are thrust into the beating heart of World War II.
Beginning this weekend at the 9-year-old museum founded by Ambrose, visitors seated in the new Solomon Victory Theatre will dodge a flak attack on U.S. B-17 bombers flying over Nazi Germany and feel the rumble of Tiger tanks in Kassarine Pass.
They will smell a Japanese city burn, experience snow drifting into a bloodied forest during the Battle of the Bulge and be startled by the flash of the atomic bomb.
These emotional, visceral and seemingly impossible experiences happen in the museum’s newest cinematic story-telling, aptly named “Beyond All Boundaries” and described as 4-D multi-sensory immersion.
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Beginning this weekend at the 9-year-old museum founded by Ambrose, visitors seated in the new Solomon Victory Theatre will dodge a flak attack on U.S. B-17 bombers flying over Nazi Germany and feel the rumble of Tiger tanks in Kassarine Pass.
They will smell a Japanese city burn, experience snow drifting into a bloodied forest during the Battle of the Bulge and be startled by the flash of the atomic bomb.
These emotional, visceral and seemingly impossible experiences happen in the museum’s newest cinematic story-telling, aptly named “Beyond All Boundaries” and described as 4-D multi-sensory immersion.