Timelapse video shows the 10 year-long building of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
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A timelapse tribute to the September 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero in New York shows the stark transformation of the destroyed Downtown area from barren block to a fitting complex that honours those who died in 2001.
The video, 10 years in the making, shows all stages of at times controversial construction of the underground museum, which now complements the memorial that opened to the public in 2011, the day after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The museum, which opened to the public on May 21 after being formally dedicated on May 15, includes about 23,000 images, 10,300 artifacts and almost 2,000 oral histories from friends and loved ones of those who lost their lives.
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Remembrance: The original World Trade Center Towers are shown in the window of the 9/11 Memorial Museum during its dedication ceremony
Paying tribute: The queue to enter the 9/11 Museum when it was opened to the public on May 21
Memories of the Twin Towers are also found in the museum in the form of steel that formed part of its structure, including the final steel to be removed from Ground Zero in May 2002.
The museum is where the globe-like Sphere stood between the towers, that despite being damaged in the attacks is now on display at Battery Park.
Brian Cury, the CEO of EarthCam who created the video, says editors had more than one million images to choose from after webcams films for 4,617 days to compile the two-and-a-half minute film.
Two 'trident'-shaped structural support beams from the original World Trade Center are on display inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum, along with educational exhibits and other recovered wreckage from the site of the deadly Islamist terror attack
It was a rainy day in New York City when the National September 11 Memorial Museum was dedicated in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning
Open to the public: The Memorial and Museum as it now stands in the footprint of the fallen World Trade Center
In an open letter, Cury said the video 'honors the victims of 9/11 and is dedicated to their families and friends, with special gratitude to the first responders and the steadfast construction teams.'
He said EarthCam has donated all footage to the museum.
President Barack Obama, on dedicating the museum following a visit with Hilary Clinton and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said: 'I think all who come here will find it to be a profound and moving experience,' he declared, calling it 'a sacred place of healing and hope.'
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