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But there are many personal items as well, such as a squeegee that a window washer used to break through a wall to flee the collapsing World Trade Center, and a clock from the Pentagon that stopped at the moment of impact.
There is also the door from a crushed New York fire truck, the video camera that recorded the first airliner to hit the World Trade Center, and -- perhaps most incongruously -- a colorful M&M's candy dispenser from a Pentagon office.
All objects are being displayed in the open, rather than in glass enclosures.
"This time, for a brief period, from September 3 to 11, we want people to come closer to these objects, as close as we can permit," Marc Pachter, the museum's interim director, said Thursday.
"It's so important," he told AFP. "Because people actually believe in things, these objects are witnesses -- and it's as though they can bend over and hear their stories."
The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, is the official repository of objects, documents and photographs relating to the 9/11 attacks.
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There is also the door from a crushed New York fire truck, the video camera that recorded the first airliner to hit the World Trade Center, and -- perhaps most incongruously -- a colorful M&M's candy dispenser from a Pentagon office.
All objects are being displayed in the open, rather than in glass enclosures.
"This time, for a brief period, from September 3 to 11, we want people to come closer to these objects, as close as we can permit," Marc Pachter, the museum's interim director, said Thursday.
"It's so important," he told AFP. "Because people actually believe in things, these objects are witnesses -- and it's as though they can bend over and hear their stories."
The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, is the official repository of objects, documents and photographs relating to the 9/11 attacks.
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