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The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has completed and opened its final permanent exhibit at the six-acre campus. The three-story building is called the Liberation Pavilion.

Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.

Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.

Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.

Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.

Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.

The Liberation Pavilion, new permanent addition to the sprawling National WWII Museum in New Orleans, opened Friday with ceremonies attended by surviving veterans of the war, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks, a longtime supporter of the museum.

A new, permanent addition to the sprawling National WWII Museum in New Orleans is a three-story complex with displays as daunting as a simulated Nazi concentration camp bunk room, and as inspiring as a violin pieced together from scrap wood by an American prisoner of war. The Liberation Pavilion — set to open Friday with ceremonies including around 40 surviving veterans of the war — is ambitious in scope. Its exhibits filling 33,000 square feet (3065.80 square meters) commemorate...

Its exhibits commemorate the end of the war's death and destruction and emphasizes its human costs.

The latest major addition to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is called the Liberation Pavilion.