The National Museum of American History's Victory Garden are located on the east lawn of the museum's Behring Center facility, located within the National Mall complex.

The gardens showcase a period-typical World War II-era victory garden, a type of garden planted throughout the war to ensure food supply for troops and civilians throughout the country. Gardens were planted in cooperation with government agencies, businesses, and civic organizations as an effort to help communities grow food and bolster war efforts.

Though many of the millions of the gardens that once lined the nation's urban and suburban spaces have now vanished, the story of victory gardens has been immortalized through a number of documentary films, books, seed collections, and photography retrospectives. 20th century-era heirloom plantings are showcased at the museum's garden, with plantings rotating during different growing seasons.

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