National September 11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

·        Introduction

The National 9-11 Memorial (also called the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) may be a memorial and depository in big apple town commemorative the 9-11, 2001 attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six.The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the former location of the Twin Towers that were destroyed throughout the 9-11 attacks. It is operated by a non-profit establishment whose mission is to lift funds for, program, and operate the memorial and museum at the World Trade Center site.

A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations.The winner of the planet Trade Center web site Memorial Competition was Israeli designer Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the look, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in the center marking where the dual Towers stood. In August 2006, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began heavy construction on the memorial and museum. the look is in step with the initial plan by Daniel Libeskind, which called for the memorial to be 30 feet (9.1 m) below street level—originally 70 feet (21 m)—in a plaza, and was the only finalist to disregard Libeskind's requirement that the buildings overhang the footprints of the Twin Towers. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation was renamed the National 9-11 Memorial in 2007

·       Memorial

·        History

Formerly the planet Trade Center Memorial Foundation, the National 9-11 Memorial was fashioned as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation to lift funds and manage the memorial's designing and construction. Its board of directors met for the first time on January 4, 2005, and it reached its first-phase capital-fundraising goal ($350 million) in April 2008. This cash and extra funds raised are accustomed build the memorial and depository and endow the depository.

In 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation launched the planet Trade Center web site Memorial Competition, a world competition to style a memorial at the planet Trade Center web site to commemorate the lives lost on 9/11. Individuals and teams from around the world submitted design proposals. On November 19, 2003, the thirteen-member jury selected eight finalists. Reflecting Absence, designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, was chosen because the winning style on January 6, 2004. It consists of a field of trees interrupted by 2 giant, recessed pools, the footprints of the Twin Towers. The deciduous trees (swamp white oaks)are arranged in rows and form informal clusters, clearings and groves. The park is at street level, above the Memorial Museum. The names of the victims of the attacks (including those from the Pentagon, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 93, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) are inscribed on the parapets surrounding the waterfalls[in an arrangement of "meaningful adjacencies".A portion of the slurry wall originally designed to carry back the Hudson, about half of what Daniel Libeskind originally wanted to preserve, is maintained in the museum. On January fourteen, 2004, the final design for the World Trade Center site memorial was unveiled at a press conference in Federal Hall National Memorial.

·        Museum operation

General admission tickets to the repository square measure $24, a price which has raised concerns. Michael Bloomberg agreed, encouraging people to "write your congressman" for more federal funding.

When the museum opened to victim families and first responders on May 15, 2014, anger by some that it was profiting from souvenirs considered in poor taste was widely covered. Souvenir take would fund the depository and memorial. On May 29, 2014, a U.S.-shaped cheese platter was among items removed for sale, and it was announced that all items sold would be reviewed by victim families for suitability.

·        Other 9/11 memorials

Main article: Memorials and services for the 9-11 attacks

In addition to the one at Ground Zero, a number of other memorials have been built by communities across the United States. Many are built around remnants of steel from the Twin Towers which have been donated by a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey program; over 1,000 pieces of World Trade Center steel have been distributed

·        Withdrawn proposals

Two centers were projected and withdrawn from set upet|the globe} Trade Center Memorial plan in 2005:

The International Freedom Center – a think factory supposed to draw attention to battles for freedom throughout history. World Trade Center Memorial Foundation member Deborah Burlingame wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the center would have a mission with no direct connection to the events of September 11 and might criticize American policy. Right-wing blogs and commentators heavily criticized the center until Governor George Pataki withdrew support for it.

The Drawing Center room at the planet Trade Center – Associate in Nursing room that was in SoHo at the time.