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The inauguration day is set for May 15, with a private ceremony reserved to the relatives of the victims, and then it will finally open its doors to the public on May 21. So, almost 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, and with a certain delay respect to the roadmap, the long-awaited 9/11 Memorial Museum will open in the plaza where once stood the Twin Towers and where today there are the two huge artificial fountains.
During this long journey that brought to the opening of the museum, there were a lot of problems that explain the delays. Problems related to the final project ( that changed several times), others related to the costs, dramatically raised in the recent years. Problems related to the weather that, in a city like New York crossed by hurricanes, snow storms, extreme heat or cold, can be a big obstacle. The whole organization was marked by the creation of a spot that may combine the sanctity of a burial ground, the security concerns of a busy airport and the clutter of a construction zone.
The museum, located at the World Trade Center site, is characterized by a glass building that makes possible looking inside where you will find two iron tridents which were part of the Twin Towers. The Museum’s heart will be a 110,000 square feet exhibition space where, through multimedia displays, archives, narratives and some authentic artifacts, will be told and commemorated the stories and the lives of the victims of the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks.
The mission of the 9/11 Memorial Museum is to honour the nearly 3,000 victims of these attacks, all of those who risked their lives to save others and the thousands who survived and demonstrated extraordinary compassion in the aftermath.
GENERAL ADMISSION: Adult $24.00, Senior (65+), U.S. Veteran, U.S. College Student $18.00, Youth (7-17) $15.00, 9/11 Family Members and children under the age of 6 are free.
