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WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - SteveG - 05-14-2014
http://www.911memorial.org/
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/sept-11-museum-displays-heart-wrenching-artifacts
The museum harbors both personal possessions and artifacts that became public symbols of survival and loss. There is the battered "survivors' staircase" that hundreds used to escape the burning skyscrapers, the memento-covered last column removed during the ground zero cleanup and the cross-shaped steel beams that became an emblem of remembrance. (An atheists' group has sued, so far unsuccessfully, seeking to stop the display of the cross).
Portraits and profiles describe the nearly 3,000 people killed by the Sept. 11 attacks and the 1993 trade center bombing. Nearly 2,000 oral histories give voice to the memories of survivors, first responders, victims' relatives and others. In one, a mother remembers a birthday dinner at the trade center's Windows on the World restaurant the night before her daughter died at work at the towers.
The museum also looks at the lead-up to Sept. 11 and its legacy.
Members of the museum's interfaith clergy advisory panel raised concerns that it plans to show a documentary film, about al-Qaida, that they said unfairly links Islam and terrorism. The museum has said the documentary is objective and its scholarship solid.
While some Sept. 11 victims' relatives have embraced the museum, others have denounced its $24 general-public ticket price as unseemly and its underground location as disrespectful, particularly because unidentified remains are being stored in a private repository there. Other victims' families see it as a fitting resting place.
The museum and the memorial plaza above it cost a total of $700 million to build. They will cost $60 million a year to run, more than Arlington National Cemetery and more than 15 times as much as the museum that memorializes the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Sept. 11 museum organizers have noted that security alone costs about $10 million a year.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - Surfrider - 05-14-2014
I won't be visiting it, even if it's free. I know what happened there.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - steve... - 05-14-2014
I'm confused.
From here:
Admission is free to the 9/11 Memorial. Visitor passes are required. Reservations made online or by phone carry a $2 nonrefundable service fee per pass.
Second link:
While some Sept. 11 victims' relatives have embraced the museum, others have denounced its $24 general-public ticket price as unseemly and its underground location as disrespectful, particularly because unidentified remains are being stored in a private repository there.
Is it $24, or Free (with online $2 service fee)?
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - PeterW - 05-14-2014
The Memorial is NOT the Museum. The Memorial is free plus the service fee; the Museum will be $24 except for the families.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - Ombligo - 05-14-2014
I'd like to see an objective breakdown of the $60 million cost per year, I'm betting there is major padding
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Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - blooz - 05-14-2014
Surfrider wrote:
I won't be visiting it, even if it's free. I know what happened there.
Ditto. Memory I already have is painful enough
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - Mike Johnson - 05-14-2014
When you post something to get people riled up, you should put it on the other side where it belongs. That's pretty basic.
We know how you feel about this. It's not the first time you've posted about it. You want to get on a high horse, do it elsewhere.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - SteveG - 05-14-2014
Thanks, Mike. That will be $24, please.
(Just a tip about a deal. Go ahead, pay the money) And just a reminder that the $17 bridge toll you will pay the Port Authority to enter NYC is paying for the $4 Billion Freedom Tower.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - davemchine - 05-14-2014
I have a sister-in-law in New York and she told me the prices for many museum type venues are suggestions and any donation is welcome. Do you think it will be the same for this one or do you think the price is firm? I don't travel to NY so I'm asking out of curiosity.
Re: WTC Museum about to open. That'll be $24, please. - SteveG - 05-14-2014
$24 is the price for adults. A few others like the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Natural History are 'suggested'.
The Star-Ledger http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/foundation_previews_national_911_museum_at_wtc_site.html says, however, "Admission is to be free on Tuesdays from 5-8 p.m., and for children 5 and younger."
(There is a similar deal, corporate-funded, for the Museum of Modern Art...if you like standing on huge lines for well over an hour.)