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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opened to the public on September 12, 2011.

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The September 11 Museum was dedicated on May 15, 2014.

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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opened to the public on May 21, 2014.

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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opened to the public on May 21, 2014.  

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National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Manhattan (No. 9)

Recovered clay pipe head with small decorative detailing. Scratched and damaged. 

Recovered metal skeleton key coated in dirt and concrete residue.

Recovered metal figure of a sailor. The legs of the figure are bent and concrete and dirt have collected in the crevices.

Recovered metal shell casing, damaged and coated in dirt.

Recovered metal fragment in a filigree design coated in dirt and concrete residue.

Much of lower Manhattan is built atop landfill, evidence of the city’s growth and changing demographics. Buttons, keys, pottery shards, and other artifacts predating the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) were unearthed in 2006 by forensic archaeologists searching near the World Trade Center site for remains of 9/11 victims. During a subsequent dig in 2010, they found the remains of an 18th-century ship. When the archaeologists uncovered these premodern artifacts, they knew they had reached the Colonial strata of the site.

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9/11 Memorial · Michael Arad  Peter Walker  Daniel Libeskind · New York · September 2011

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September 11, remembered

The ghostly columns are officially called the Tribute in Light. I can see them now from my window. They rise four miles into the sky and are visible 60 miles away. They go up at sunset on Sept. 11 and gradually disappear when dawn brings another day.

The first few years after 2001 I used to watch the memorial service at Ground Zero. Though I had a tenuous connection to two of the victims, I knew…

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