9/11 Memorial Museum will have $24 admission fee

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-911-museum-20140125,0,7936431.story

Sept. 11 museum's planned admission fee stirs some anger
Directors say the $24 ticket price is needed to maintain the site. Critics say it will shut people out from honoring a national tragedy.
By Tina Susman
January 24, 2014, 5:08 p.m.

NEW YORK — When the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens in mid-May, it will have shards of the fallen World Trade Center towers. It will have walls covered with portraits of the nearly 3,000 victims, and the watch worn by Todd Beamer when he declared, "Let's roll," and helped launch an attack on the Flight 93 hijackers.

It will have a burned-out ambulance that raced to save people, and helmets of firefighters who battled dust and flames to reach those trapped in the ruins.

It will also have a $24 admission fee, which directors say is needed to maintain the site, a cost that critics say undercuts the idea of ensuring that all the world can visit and learn from the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.

In a city where people shell out more than $100 for tickets to "The Lion King," where the Bronx Zoo charges about $20 a head, and where the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recommended donation is $25, the Sept. 11 museum's fee has touched a nerve like no other.

[NightWatcher]

1. I don't see me wanting to pay/nor re-live for free, the events of that day, as packaged and sold

...and here's the fireman's hat that our brave president wore when he said the people who knocked down the towers would hear from us... before he went and attacked the country that didn't have anything to do with...

...and here's the electronic billboard with the running total of the number of times Rudy Ghouliani said "9/11"

...here's the draft of the Patriot Act that was readied just two seconds after the first plane hit....

[hlthe2b]

3. Me, either.... I lived, breathed, and absorbed the entire event....

day in and day out.... Those of us on DU that fateful morning, probably all have that in common.


Only during Columbine (when I was confined to home with a broken ankle), did I allow myself to again get this absorbed in a horrendous tragedy. JFK, RFK, MLK, nightly Vietnam carnage, the Challenger disaster-- all take a toll on the psyche.

[monmouth3]

2. New York will become a place to read about,to afford the attractions is a dream for most..n/t

[Logical]

4. If you can travel to NYC you can afford $24 more dollars. n-t