Admission fee applies for 9/11 museum
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May 6, 2013, Monday
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FACED with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of US$20 to US$25 when the site opens next year.
The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided.
Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free.
The decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been greeted with dismay by some relatives of 9/11 victims.
"People are coming to pay their respects and for different reasons," said Janice Testa of Valley Stream, whose firefighter brother Henry Miller Jr died at the twin towers. "It shouldn't be a place where you go and see works of art. It should more be like a memorial place like a church that there's no entry fee."
The memorial plaza opened in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, but disputes over funding have pushed the museum's opening to spring 2014.
With the cost of operating the memorial and museum projected to be US$60 million a year, the memorial foundation voted last week to charge a mandatory admission fee for the museum.
The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided.
Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free.
The decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been greeted with dismay by some relatives of 9/11 victims.
"People are coming to pay their respects and for different reasons," said Janice Testa of Valley Stream, whose firefighter brother Henry Miller Jr died at the twin towers. "It shouldn't be a place where you go and see works of art. It should more be like a memorial place like a church that there's no entry fee."
The memorial plaza opened in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, but disputes over funding have pushed the museum's opening to spring 2014.
With the cost of operating the memorial and museum projected to be US$60 million a year, the memorial foundation voted last week to charge a mandatory admission fee for the museum.
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