Amid the construction machinery and the dust, powerful artifacts of death and destruction have assumed their final resting places inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Read: Sept 11 Museum Putting Hallowed Artifacts in Place The ‘Cross’, left, intersecting steel beams found in the rubble of 6 World Trade Center and a fragment of a trident column, center, one of 84 that formed the exterior structure of each tower are displayed during a media tour of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) |
In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, the wedge-shaped pavilion entrance of the National September 11 Museum, center, is located between the square outlines of the memorial waterfalls at the World Trade Center in New York. Construction is racing ahead inside the museum as the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks draws near. Several more large artifacts have been installed in the cavernous space below the World Trade Center memorial plaza. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) |
The National September 11 Museum is seen beyond the North Pool in the Memorial, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) |
The original stairway from the World Trade Center Plaza to Vesey Street, left, is seen during a media tour of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) |
The New York City Fire Department Engine Co. 21 truck is covered in a protective wrap during a media tour of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) |
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