9/11 Museum: Terror Artefacts Go On Display

Artefacts recovered from the World Trade Center attacks have gone on display in a 9/11 underground museum at the site.

Steel columns that rose from the base of the North Tower

Several pieces of mangled steel and metal - telling different stories of the 2001 terror attacks - are on show at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum ahead of its completion next spring.

The first relics that visitors will see are two massive pieces of structural steel that rose from the base of the North Tower.

Now the rusty red columns soar above ground into the glass atrium that encloses the entrance to the museum.

Steel facade segments, also known as "Impact Steel", that were torn apart.

Joseph Daniels, president of the memorial and museum, said: "They're so large - about 70ft tall - that we built the museum around them."

The last piece of steel removed from ground zero in 2002, which sits inside a gaping silvery chamber that drops to the lowest level of the museum, is also on show.

Visitors will also see a piece of the building, called "impact steel", which was destroyed by the impact of Flight 11 slamming into the North Tower.

The Survivors Staircase, which hundreds escaped down

Mr Daniels said: "You can see how, at the bottom, the columns are bent back. That's because Flight 11's nose, when it pierced the building, it bent steel like that."

A "Survivors Staircase", which hundreds of people used to escape from the towers, will perhaps be the most chilling part of the showcase.

Museum director Alice Greenwald said: "You're literally following the same pathway that hundreds followed on 9/11 to survival, to safety.

The exterior of the museum

"In some respects, what we're saying to our visitors is, we all live in a world now that was defined by this event. And in that sense, we're all survivors of 9/11."

Nearly 3,000 people died in the twin tower attacks.

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