National World War II Museum Monuments Men Mine Art Exhibit New Orleans United States // NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Framed artworks and a replica of Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges rest on wooden crates inside a simulated salt mine at the National WWII Museum's Monuments Men exhibit. This immersive gallery recreates the conditions faced by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) program beginning in March 1945. Allied investigators located hundreds of thousands of stolen cultural treasures, Reichsbank gold, and Holocaust victims' jewelry hidden by the Nazis across more than 1,400 subterra

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