The museum, which has welcomed more than 10 million visitors since opening in 2014, commemorates the attack in human terms.Įncased in glass are hundreds of frankly mundane items - receipts, computers disks, shoes, a backpack, a torch - that were salvaged from the wreckage. We’ve seen images of the planes exploding into the soaring skyscrapers and the towers crashing down so many times, yet the events of September 11, 2001, remain hard to fathom.Ī visit to the impressive 9/11 Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan changes that. SEVENTEEN years after the world-changing attack on the World Trade Center in New York, sometimes it still does not seem real.
