The interpretive museum, to be housed under the World Trade Center memorial, will ``totally humanize all the people'' killed in the terrorist attacks, said committee member Ginny Bauer, whose husband, David Bauer, died in the Sept. 11 attack.
``I do feel a responsibility to be sure that history will be told accurately,'' said Bauer, one of 24 people named to the advisory committee.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency in charge of redeveloping the 16-acre site, ultimately will choose which artifacts belong at the 65,000-square-foot museum, under the ``Reflecting Absence'' memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. The memorial will mark the twin towers' footprints with two pools of water and will be surrounded by the names of the more than 2,700 people killed at the site.
Likely fixtures at the museum are the ruins of fire trucks and police cars that responded to the scene on Sept. 11, 2001, and a steel column removed from ground zero.
``The artifacts just completely spoke for themselves. You don't have to say anything,'' said committee member Nikki Stern, who toured the hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport where artifacts are stored.
Stern, whose husband, James Potorti, was killed on Sept. 11, said she hopes the museum will include as many artifacts as possible and individual stories remembering the victims.
The museum also will remember the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the trade center, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others.
Financing for the museum hasn't been determined. A private foundation that is raising money for the memorial likely will be involved in raising money for the museum, LMDC president Kevin Rampe said.
