The 9-11 Memorial Museum

Sue,
I followed your link, after reading this and had *no* idea that there was a Teardrop Memorial in New Jersey. It's beautiful. Why not at Ground Zero? I don't understand it, either. Probably because it makes no sense and no, I don't think there would have been all that controversy about the mosque, not if there was already a beautiful Memorial like that, already there.
For $25.00 for the museum? IF it ever gets finished? No, I wouldn't and at this time, couldn't pay that much for a visit there and even if I could - I still wouldn't.

Mare~

As I said, Mare, I just think this was a very political decision and there was a lot of jealousy involved in the cultural community. To have gone to such great lengths to get the names of all those memorialized, it was meant for nowhere else but that site. It's appalling that they took ten years to do what someone else from another country did in 5 years and they're still not finished.

When you think that it took only a little over a year to build the Empire State Building, there's no excuse that the site has been undeveloped for so long and, of course, I intensely dislike Bloomberg so I think he had a lot to do with it.

In one of the links I provided in that article about the Teardrop Monument was a quote from the artist who said he envisioned the monument while watching newscasts of the attacks. Now that link is no longer available.

What Snopes provides here is not at all the original story of how that monument got placed where it did. The artist's original intention was that it be placed at Ground Zero.

Here's another example of how the story got changed in just a year.

The article that I linked to originally never stated that Tsereteli did not think that Ground Zero was the appropriate place. This quote I remember well: "
"The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument.”

I also remember this quote, though changed a bit from the original:
But then the mayor died, and objections to the planned monument surfaced. A Jersey City artists’ organization, for instance, called it “an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world’s blatant self-promoters.”

It wasn't the New Jersey artists' organization, but a New York City artists' association, that rejected the idea for placement in New York City, and that was when and how they decided it should be this universal memorial against world terrorism.

But, just from viewing the Teardrop Monument, seeing all of those names, seeing how beautiful it is, you just know where it 'really' belongs. That would be not where it is.

That's very true too, Mare.

I have to say that is way to steep for us

Yeah, so a family of four spends a hundred bucks just to enter this museum? Probably would have some age limit, past 10 or something, but still it's ridiculous, especially if you've come to NYC for the day. At least if you go to the Museum of Natural History, you'll get your bang for the buck, and it's cheaper, even paying for special events not included in the admission.

Probably would not spend that much on admission, if I was ever up that way...

If you were, there would most likely be many other attractions on which you'd rather spend it, Matthew. :)

I'm sure that's true!

Sue I have not been to a museum in the States so perhaps you can tell me, do they charge an admission fee in any of your other museums. I ask this because in our museums we do not charge an admission fee they are free to enter. They are owned by the Government and as such they are owned by us the people of Britain. The Government did in the 90s try and charge an admission fee but found that attendance dropped so reverted to free admissions but we can if we wish give a donation.

It seems to me that this is the best way to get people into museums that have such an important role in our lives.

When I was a child there was a museum of natural history that we used to frequent and it was free. It is no longer, but it also isn't a prohibitive cost. In New York and Boston, I don't ever remember going to any free museums, but none were as costly as $25 per person. I think that even the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC was $15 or $20 the last time we were there. All of them are in the $20 range, even the Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL.

I just think that this one doesn't necessitate a cost at all, or a minimum charge of $5 or $10 tops if they must.

Its a shame they have to charge at all Sue but if they must then as you say $5-$10 is the most they should charge. I must admit I love going to Museums in Britain, we have so many and most citys in Britain will have one. The one nearest to me is a very good one and now I am retired I frequent it quite a lot. The last great showing that it had was the Saxon hoard, its frequently called the Staffordshire hoard that was found not far from where I live a couple of years ago.

Perhaps they will drop the charges to a more reasonable charge in the future, especially if people complain

Well, we'll see what happens when June 2014 rolls around, Graham.

I wasn't familiar with the Staffordshire hoard so I looked it up. You have volunteers to accommodate the visitors. Ours are mostly all paid employees so that's another reason for our charges. This looks like something I would have really enjoyed.

Ah I see from your link that you have mixed up the tour of the Hoard that has gone from city to city to venues like Lichfield Cathedral where they do have many volunteers that help out from time to time. The Museums in the UK are mostly run in trusts and have full time employers from all walks of life such as archaeologists and anthropologists and they get their funding from Government and private donations.

I was luck enough to see the Saxon hoard when it came to Stoke On Trent we shared it at the time with the museum in Birmingham some of the pieces came to us and some to Birmingham and then we swapped them around.

They are a wonderful look at our Saxon past, no one actually knows how and why they were in that field. Many of pieces had been vandalized by the people who buried the treasure of Gold and silver and jewels, which makes me think that it was the property of either a Saxon King and his army or some other King or Lord that was fighting in that field against each other.

What probably happened was that like in all battles their was a victor who took the spoils of the battle, then sometime later before they could leave the scene of the battle they were attacked by allies of the Saxon King who had come to his rescue. what would have happened the victors of the previous battle would have stripped the treasure down to manageable sizes and buried them for safe keeping. They themselves were then killed and the treasure would have been lost forever until it was found a thousand years later.

Its all speculation as we will never know what actually took place in that field all those years ago. But if you get the chance Sue to see the hoard you will not be disappointed. This is a good link to find out more about the Saxon hoard. http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/event/see-it-in-stoke

Oh, I see, Graham. What a gorgeous museum! Thank you for the link and the story.

Thanks for sharing :-))

Way to much to charge! =/

Quinnipiac Poll devised a question on this one. It's a poll of NYC residents.

24. Do you think people should have to pay to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum or not?

71% said they should not charge at all.