statue of liberty museum
Every year 4.3 millions of people visit “Lady Liberty” to admire the beauty of the statue, but the visit is not complete unless you dive yourself into the history and ideals which inspired its construction.
general information about the museum
The construction of the museum started in 2016 and it has been completed only last year, in 2019, and it arises from necessity of expand the older one that could host just a small percentage of the tourists. It deals with an eco-friendly building that includes parts of the older museum, it uses renewable energies and has a rooftop garden that helps him to get a lower environmental impact.
The museum is separate from the statue and behind it, but still near the monument on the liberty island, and it faces New York Bay.
The front face of the museum has got a huge glass window and a long flight of steps that bring to the garden on the roof.
Moreover is present a large circular square in front of the building.
inside the museum
The museum features three gallery spaces, each one meant to inspire and educate the tourists about the Statue of Liberty history and the ideals that brought at its construction.
The museum also has full-scale copper models of some parts of the statue of Lady Liberty, like the foot and the face that are made with the same technique of the original parts of the statue.
Among the other hundreds of artifacts inside the museum there is also the original torch of the statue that has been replaced with the new one in 1986 after about 100 years it had been on the monument.
The re-designed visit route of this museum includes also interactive exhibits in many different languages....
...and an immersive film produced by ABC news and Walt Disney imageneering.
fantastic themed rooms
The visit route also goes through fantastic immersive rooms that tell the story of the statue to the visitors, such as the one that represents the workshop of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi with many photos of him working on the project. Here there is also the full-scale model of the foot of the Statue of Liberty.
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