PREVIOUS COVERAGE | National Museum of the Pacific War named a top 10 history museum by USA Today for 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt is history coming alive and you feel like they are talking to you,\u201d said Shields. \u201cWe are very faithful to all the characters that we create that these are their words. We are just using characters to portray them as they were in that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The museum has nine new virtual characters that appear throughout the Bush Gallery. They allow visitors to hear first-hand accounts of service, sacrifice, and survival and deepen visitors\u2019 connections to the people behind World War II history.<\/p>\n
13-year-old Elizabeth Winters said the museum’s renovation means history does not just have to be displayed, it can be experienced.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe design is really cool and the way they redesigned it I\u2019m just learning a lot more than I do in school,\u201d said Winters. \u201cIf you walk through a museum like this, you are looking at the submarine, you are looking at different videos, and it is like you were actually there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Museums have learned that simply reading text is not the most effective way to engage teens and young adults. So, they have set up learning tools, immersive environments, and tactile experiences to bring history to life in a more interactive way.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistory matters because people matter. That is what makes history less abstract and more tangible to our guests,\u201d said Rorie Cartier, President and CEO of the National Museum of the Pacific War. \u201cWe really kind of follow the thought that history is not just what happens, it is who it happens to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fredericksburg\u2019s National Museum of the Pacific War is home to the largest collection in the world of Pacific War artifacts. As World War II passes from living memory to history, the new modernized gallery is designed to increase knowledge and emotional connections to what is known as the \u201cgreatest generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The National Museum of the Pacific War<\/a> is open 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday \u2013 Monday and is closed Tuesdays. It is located at 311 E. Austin Street in Fredericksburg, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREDERICKSBURG, Texas \u2014 The National Museum of the Pacific War is battling time. The personal connection to World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-245079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}