Edsel is the founder of the Dallas-based Monuments Men and Women Foundation, which has dedicated itself to uncovering and rescuing art plundered by the Nazis.
Robert Edsel gives a tour of the National WWII Museum’s new Liberation Pavilion, specifically the Monuments Men and Women Gallery on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2023. One of the three rooms depicts a salt mine where stolen artworks were discovered during the war. The Liberation Pavilion is the capstone building of the museum’s $400 million campus.
The Liberation Pavilion is merely the latest phase in Edsel’s odyssey, which began in Florence, Italy, in 1996, when he developed a passion for art and architecture that led to a driven curiosity about monuments and esteemed artworks.. Past recipients include director Steven Spielberg, actor Tom Hanks, documentarian Ken Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough and legendary news anchor Tom Brokaw.
The National WWII Museum began in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum, but in 2004, largely through the bipartisan backing of Sen. Daniel InouyeCQ and Sen. Ted Stevens — both World War II combat veterans — the museum changed names and in so doing dramatically broadened its focus.
The pavilion also includes a theater in the round devoted to a film that chronicles “what World War II was all about,” Edsel says, “and how it changed our country forever.”
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