9/11
Users can visit the Memorial Museum digitally
The 9/11 Memorial Museum has been open since May 2014.
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September 11th marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the Word Trade Center. The 9/11 Memorial Museum can also be visited digitally.
Five years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, construction began on Ground Zero for a memorial and a museum. Exactly ten years later, on September 11, 2011, the memorial was inaugurated, and the museum around two and a half years later. It houses thousands of images, artifacts, and video and audio recordings. If you want, you can visit the museum roam digitally in an interactive video.
Those interested can visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum digitally
The digital foray consists of a total of eleven short videos, at the end of which you have to decide which one you want to go to. The visitors enter the museum through the entrance (Entrance), from where they have to choose either the stairs (Trident Stairs) or the ramp (Ramp). Once there, those interested pave their way until they are brought together again at the end.
The videos accompany a group of three visitors during their visit to the museum; the makers dispense with off-screen stories. Instead, the clips are accompanied by music and the camera occasionally captures tour guides who explain details of the museum to other groups of visitors.
The memorial and the museum commemorate the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and the bomb attack on February 26, 1993. September 2001 this was also destroyed. According to official information, the attacks killed 2,763 people in the buildings as well as a total of 157 occupants of the two aircraft hijacked by terrorists.