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An Apollonaut travel guide
A place of remembrance in the city.
An introduction to the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, where the Memorial and Museum stand among the rebuilt towers.
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Read the site from the plaza
The Memorial plaza holds the two pools, rows of trees and the museum Pavilion, with One World Trade Center and the Oculus close by.
This is a place of remembrance as well as a working part of the city. Move through it with care, and give others space at the pools and the names.
Bronze, water and light
The names of individual victims are cut out of the bronze parapets, so that visitors can trace the letters; affiliations such as companies or flights are embossed. The parapets have chamfered corners, so that a seated person shares the same view into the pools.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained, and for whom.
Beneath the plaza
Below the plaza, the museum reaches down to the foundations of the original World Trade Center, where a surviving section of the slurry wall still stands.
Look at the meeting of the two: the open plaza above and the original foundations below.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who made them.
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Sources & further reading
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