Our plans were to walk up 48th Street to the nearest station and catch the train to visit the 9/11 Memorial site. So that's what we did and as we arrived early we had plenty of time to look at the new World Trade Centre building which is a single building of an entirely different shaped from the twin towers, destroyed by the planes and the ensuring fires on September 11, 2001. 
The 9/11 Memorial, a national tribute of remembrance to the men, women and children killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2013 and February 26, 1993 (world Trade Centre bombing) The 9/11 Memorial is situated on the site of the original World Trade Centre and it incorporates a serene eight-acre tree-lined Memorial Plaza with two simple square shaped sunken water flow reflecting pool monuments. The names of every person lost because of this terrible attack, are recorded on the skyward wall surrounds of the memorial monuments. The 9/11 Memorial Museum has also been erected as part of this site complex and is adjacent to the 9/11 Memorial moument. It is a tribute to the victims, survivors and their loved ones The museum has been sympathetically designed in that it states simply the facts, figures and stories of heroism by pilots, fire and ambulance, ordinary citizens. We saw multimedia displays, archives and collections of more than 10,000 artifacts such as first responder vehicles, personal effects, remnants of the Twin Towers and beautiful artworks created to inspire a spirit of hope and renewal.
The 9/11 Memorial Museum covers several floors both below and above the basement rooms but we received a map and headphones with our tickets to assist us in deciding which areas of the museum to visit. The display numbers on each exhibit correlated with the audio explanations so we gained helpful information as we pondered the objects we were looking at.
Here are a few photographs taken within the museum:
We saw the original a Slurry Wall, (built before the Twin Towers) to hold back the waters of the Hudson River to prevent its waters from seeping into the base of the Twin Towers and inundating the city and other buildings. Wonderfully these walls 
withstood the on slaught of the Twin Towers collapse. Engineers had drilled reinforcing steel cables, known as tie backs, into the slurry wall and anchored these into bedrock. This was a relatively new technique and it proved to be an excellent watertight solution as well as a stable and strong base for the towers. The Slurry Wall is part of the Museum's basement exhibition today - an example of a great feat of engineering. now is on d
The remains of the Vesey Stairs were a "path to freedom " for many survivors withstood the collapse on 9/11. They have been preserved and now renamed as "The Survivor's Stairs" most of the damage now visible was inflicted during the cleanup operation but theses stairs aidedthesafe evacuation of many people on September 9, 2001.
On display are two steel collums that once formed the outside structure of the Twin Towers. The steel colum from the South Towers has been bent and broken by the intense heat generated on that day.
The other steel facade recovered is from the North Tower. The 9/11, high jacked flight which tore into the north facade of the North Tower, created a gash from the 93rd to the 99th floors and tore apart steel columns weighing many tons. The weight of the planes fuselage and heat of the burning fuelt melted and wisted the steel column
9/11 Art works: Many people created works of art as a way of dealing with the shock and horror of the events of 9/11. For many, being able to express grief through art, has been a healing process. For others creating artworks to honour lives lost has been a positive way of remembering loved ones, lost. Here are a few examples of the many art works donated to the 9/11 Museum.
1a. A porcelain 9/11 Memorial Urn : caste by Minnesota art professor, Tom Lane. Lane's classically shaped urn honours the lives of those lost on 9/11. Yet it is an urn in concept only, as the vessel is empty.
1b. Fired into the urn's delicate, faceted surface are the names of all 2,977 victims of 9/11 and the words of the speech given by President George W. Bush on the night of the attacks, can be seen winding around the tapered lid of the urn.
2. A Colourful Collage made by school children in Maine. Together they wanted to show the world that love rather than hate is what America stands for. It stood in the school library for many years but was donated to the 9/11 Museum once the museum was opened
3. Postage Stamp Collage: One stamp at a time: created by Lucas Berstein and Erica Feinstein, classmates in a school in Pennsylvania in memory of Lucas' uncle, Morty Frank who worked on the 104th floor and was killed on 9/11. Together they collected 3,000 distinctive US and international postage stamps, one to memoralise each victim of the attack
More Artworks:
4. Engraved Waterford Crystal Triangles from the 2001 Times Square New Eve's Ball. This beautiful illumated crystal ball was created to memoralise the victims of 9/11 and honouring the first responders. It is 2 metres in diameter, made up of 504 Waterford crystal triangles and it illuminated Times Square on the first New Year Eve following 9/11. Inscriptions on the crystals acknowledge losses from the terrorist attacks at the World a Trade Centre, the Pentagon and aboard all four hijacked flights,maps well as the first responders.
5. 1X, X1 Sculpture. A simple Roman numeral design to remind people of the day that changed America and the world, forever. A date to remember is now etched in bright pink metal.
6. Twin Tower Button Project. Sarah Hashell collected over 3000 buttons from all over America and England and over a 10 day period a team of volunteers hand sewed the buttons into the shape of the Twin Towers. One button for each of the lives lost.
7. An American Flag: This U.S.A. flag has been designed with a photograph of every person lost because of the tragic events on 9/11, being superimposed on the flag in the same colours as the stripes and the blue spaces between the stars. The flag was created to honour their memories.
The audio commentary which we used during our 9/11 Museum visit was very informative and sensitively narrated by Peter DeNero. The tone was not brash or vindictive but respectful and thought provoking in that it made us soberly think about eternity and how that in this fallen and broken world, God is still sovereign. He holds all things together and one day when Jesus returns, as he surely will, He will wind all things up.
We left the 9/11 complex and caught another train to 12th Street so that we could explore the High Line walking trail and gain further vistas of Manhattan from this above ground level walkway. The new Memorial Station is ultra modern, very sleek and a credit to the designers. We think that in the future this station may be used as a movie location venue, just like Grand Central has been used in many movies over the years.
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