Golden outraged by Sept. 11 museum fee
Visitors will have to pay $24 to see WTC exhibits
State Sen. Marty Golden and the families of Sept. 11 victims expressed outrage over the announcement by the Board of Trustees of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum that the museum will charge $24 a person to visit the facility when it opens in the spring.
Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-southern Brooklyn) called the fee “absurd” and said that the $24 admission price will be prohibitive and will keep many people from being able to visit the museum.
“It is absurd to charge $24 to enter the memorial museum. The adjoining World Trade Center memorial site is the focus for this museum. Hundreds of thousands of people make downtown Manhattan their destination in order to visit the World Trade Center site. Simply visiting the site without visiting the museum would be an incomplete experience. Twenty-four dollars is prohibitive in that it defies the intent of the memorial to honor the tragedy and it prevents the general public from visiting the museum,” Golden said in a statement.