Memory of the heart
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Mondays are free. Despite this, despite, also, the approach of the twentieth anniversary of September 11, few tourists venture beyond the gigantic fountains set at the site of New York’s twin towers, towards this strange building with cubist angles. , with the roof folded in its center as by the slap of a celestial giant. Closed for six months in 2020, the September 11 museum, memorial to the worst attack in American history, is still struggling to regain its marks in a city in remission from the Covid disaster.
In financial breakdown, the independent institution had to lay off or lay off 200 of its 337 employees. It is now canceling the majority of its temporary exhibitions scheduled before the commemoration ceremonies. For a simple reason: the attendance of the places, and therefore the entrance tickets, priced at the high price of 26 dollars (22 euros) per adult, is in b…
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