Existing comment:
Steel recovered from the World Trade Center after September 11, 2001:
As a museum of biography and history, the National Portrait Gallery concentrates on the individuals who have helped make our nation. But when appropriate, the Portrait Gallery also uses associative historical items to supplement its portraits and to illuminate particularly important historical moments. Under this guideline, we obtained a remnant of the destroyed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, believing that September 11, 2001 -- which this piece of twisted metal represents, symbolizes, and memorializes -- is a defining event in contemporary history.
Transfer from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |