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• Gary Marlon Suson, Official Ground Zero photographer for the Uniformed Firefighters Association, offers intimate images of death and love inside Ground Zero at the Ground Zero Museum Workshop.
• Suson spent 8 months at the site with recovery workers searching for the remains of the 2,749 people who died on 9/11.
• Suson's time in "The Pit" comes alive at the Ground Zero Museum Workshop of photographs, videos and artifacts.
• As the official photographer at Ground Zero for the Uniformed Firefighters Association, Suson was the only full-time, all-access photographer at Ground Zero.
• The Museum Workshop is located in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
• Visitors are met by 3-dimensional displays of photographs that pull the viewer close to the terror, dirt, sweat — and death.
• See the tangible vestiges of the twin towers, including pieces of window glass, lobby marble & jagged beam steel.
• View the display case that holds a beer can from 1971 pried from the metal at Ground Zero, twisted and rusty.
• We are located just 8 minutes by the "E" subway from the Ground Zero site.
• Proceeds from the entrance fee will go to 6 charities linked to 9/11.

Description

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MUSEUM IS NOT LOCATED AT GROUND ZERO. We are located just 8 minutes by the "E" subway from the Ground Zero site.

Ground Zero Museum Workshop is certainly an emotional and humbling experience. It is similar to visiting the Anne Frank Museum in Holland, where the reality of what happened is not sugar coated.

There are no graphic or morbid images displayed here and the core of the collection focuses more on the recovery efforts as opposed to the tragedy of the morning of September 11.

Everything is presented tastefully and beautifully, but the history cannot be ignored, so you should be prepared for an experience much deeper than standing outside the gates at Ground Zero.

Rare video footage from the recovery is also displayed on large screens, while you view the photographs & remnants.

The intention of Mr. Suson's Museum Workshop is not to be a harrowing experience; on the contrary, it is meant to be a beautiful and touching way to remember the fallen and those that struggled to recover them.

The only memory that most people have of that day is the sight of two towers collapsing and aerial video footage of Ground Zero seen on the news.

Tour Includes:

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MUSEUM IS NOT LOCATED AT GROUND ZERO.

We are located just 8 minutes by the "E" subway from the Ground Zero site.

Unlike many museums, Ground Zero Museum Workshop allows certain items/artifacts to be picked up and handled. This is allowed so visitors have a more interactive experience with the hopes of having a greater understanding of what took place during the recovery.

For example, visitors will be able to pick up WTC window glass and steel. Observing the weight and density of such items helps one to have a better understanding of the size and mass of the towers. Some artifacts are on temporary loan from Ground Zero recovery workers and firemen.