NEW YORK — Audiovisual tributes to the thousands of Sept. 11, 2001, victims — accompanied with stories from their lives — will form the core of a memorial museum, officials announced Wednesday.
Victims’ families have been asked to share materials for the underground exhibit within the footprint of the World Trade Center’s south tower. They also must confirm the accuracy of the names to be inscribed around two memorial pools, surrounded by a park.
"The key to this part of the museum is participation by friends and families of the victims,” said Joseph C. Daniels, president and chief executive of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. "We’re asking them to leave us recordings and images or remembrances of those they lost.”
Through a new telephone initiative — called Call to Remember — relatives and friends are being asked "to pick up the phone and spend time reflecting on those they lost,” Daniels said.
More than 3,000 packets announcing the effort have been mailed.
The resulting materials will be at the core of tributes to victims including names and photographs flashed on a wall of the museum 70 feet underground. In an adjacent minitheater Daniels calls the exhibit’s "inner sanctum,” visitors will view continuous movies, images and narration commemorating each of the more than 2,900 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
Visitors wishing to see tributes to loved ones will be accommodated.
Another section of the museum will "tell the story of 9/11,” Daniels said.
To enter the exhibit, visitors will cross a footbridge and pass remnants of the south tower’s columns. They will then see a 12-foot-high wall of portraits, with display consoles offering details about individuals’ lives.
Those remembered will include victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people, and those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, at the Pentagon, in the four hijacked planes and aboard the airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania.
by the associated press
Victims’ families have been asked to share materials for the underground exhibit within the footprint of the World Trade Center’s south tower. They also must confirm the accuracy of the names to be inscribed around two memorial pools, surrounded by a park.
"The key to this part of the museum is participation by friends and families of the victims,” said Joseph C. Daniels, president and chief executive of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. "We’re asking them to leave us recordings and images or remembrances of those they lost.”
Through a new telephone initiative — called Call to Remember — relatives and friends are being asked "to pick up the phone and spend time reflecting on those they lost,” Daniels said.
More than 3,000 packets announcing the effort have been mailed.
The resulting materials will be at the core of tributes to victims including names and photographs flashed on a wall of the museum 70 feet underground. In an adjacent minitheater Daniels calls the exhibit’s "inner sanctum,” visitors will view continuous movies, images and narration commemorating each of the more than 2,900 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
Visitors wishing to see tributes to loved ones will be accommodated.
Another section of the museum will "tell the story of 9/11,” Daniels said.
To enter the exhibit, visitors will cross a footbridge and pass remnants of the south tower’s columns. They will then see a 12-foot-high wall of portraits, with display consoles offering details about individuals’ lives.
Those remembered will include victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people, and those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, at the Pentagon, in the four hijacked planes and aboard the airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania.
by the associated press
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