The artifacts featured in the 9/11 Memorial Museum share intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning, and recovery. These are central to telling the story of the attacks and the aftermath that continues to shape the world we live in today. | National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Two steel columns, from the North Tower, known as tridents. They are the first artifact that visitors encounter as they make their descent into the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the only one visible from the 9/11 Memorial. www.911memorial.org/visit | National September 11 Memorial & Museum