NEW WORLD TRADE CENTER, National September 11 & Memorial Museum

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Work began in 2006 on this museum and memorial, and the building of the latter was completed exactly ten years following the unbelievable tragedy.

So let’s start from this monument, located in the center of the Memorial Plaza and composed of two enormous pools located exactly where the Twin Towers once stood.

As you will have noticed, here in the Plaza, planted with four hundred oak trees, the deafening noise of the city becomes muted, giving way to the sound of the largest artificial waterfall in the United States. When you approach the edge of the twin pools, called “Reflecting Absence”, you’ll see that the flow of water timidly begins as numerous little streams, gradually growing in intensity and becoming a potent, gushing river, the symbol of the tears of the whole community flowing into the depths of the earth. This tragic image is framed by the names of the “absent”, i.e. the thousands of victims.

Now press pause and head to the Museum....