In PHOTOS: The haunting memories of 9/11

We bring you images from the under construction 9/11 MemorialMuseum at the WorldTradeCenter site in New York. The museum is scheduled to be opened to the public in the spring of 2014.

The museum will tell the individual stories of the 2,977 people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93, as well as the six people who perished in the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 

The museum will display artifacts of intimate to monumental scale -- from a wide range of personal items donated by victims’ families in memory of their loved ones to multiple objects salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, says Museum Director Alice Greenwald.

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The burnt out cab of a New York City Fire Department Engine Company 21 fire truck is seen inside the 911 Memorial Museum. The fire truck will be part of the permanent display at the museum.    

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The 'Survivor's Stairs' are seen inside the 911 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York.

On September 11, 2001, this staircase offered a clear exit from the World Trade Center Plaza to Vesey Street, providing a means of escape for hundreds fleeing from the towers after the attacks and became symbolic of survival and acquired the name 'Survivor's Stairs'.  

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A message is taped to a wall inside the 911 Memorial Museum at the WorldTradeCenter site in New York.   

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Steel from the wreckage of the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster is seen inside the 911 Memorial Museum in New York.

During their breaks, some ironworkers cut symbols and shapes out of discarded steel to give as mementos and tokens of comfort to other workers and victims' relatives and loved ones. This section will be on permanent display in the 911 Memorial Museum.

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New York City Fire Department's Engine Company 21 fire truck, which will be part of the permanent display, is seen inside the 911 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York.  

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A portion of the original steel footings embedded in the bedrock for the South Tower of the World Trade Center are visible inside the 911 Memorial Museum in New York, July 2, 2013.

The footprint of the original World Trade Center twin towers will be visible inside the Museum which sits below the 911 Memorial Plaza and pools at the World Trade Center site.  

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Steel facade segments, also known as 'Impact Steel', that were torn apart when hijacked United Flight 175 tore into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, hang inside a center passage area of the 911 Memorial Museum. 

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Construction continues around the last column of steel removed from the World Trade Center site in 2002, inside the 911 Memorial Museum.

The column (seen covered with protective material) is covered with messages and mementos of tribute affixed to its surfaces by recovery workers, first responders and family members of victims and will stand in this area of the Museum next to the 'Slurry Wall' (L) part of the World Trade Center's original foundation built to keep the Hudson River from flooding the site.

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Two steel 'tridents' recovered from the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001, stand in the entry pavilion area of the 911 Memorial Museum in New York.

The two 'tridents' rose from the base of the NorthTower (1WTC) and were embedded in the bedrock branching from one column into three at the sixth floor of the tower.   

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Visitors to the 911 Memorial plaza peer through glass windows into the 911 Memorial Museum in New York.  

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A visitor to the 911 Memorial plaza peers through glass windows into the 911 Memorial Museum, which is under construction, at the WorldTradeCenter site in New York.  

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Visitors to the 911 Memorial plaza peer through glass windows into the 911 Memorial Museum, which is under construction, at the World Trade Center site in New York. The Museum is scheduled to be opened to the public in the Spring of 2014.  

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