Man from Utah preserves shuttered 9/11 museum by putting it online

UTAH COUNTY, Utah — A Utah County man is working to protect a 9/11 museum in New York Metropolis that simply shut its doorways for good.

He’s doing it with the assistance of recent know-how.

“That’s what I keep in mind seeing is simply smoke and fireplace,” mentioned Scott Howard.

The sights and sounds — they take us again, they assist us replicate.

“They usually defined to me that there had been at assault in New York Metropolis.”

Howard was in school within the sixth grade.

“There was a a lot greater world on the market, and there have been individuals who hated us sufficient to, you already know, kill folks,” he mentioned.

So when he heard the 9/11 Tribute Museum was going away — a momento created by households of the fallen — he referred to as them, flying there the subsequent day.

 “To me, was horrifying.”

He captured all the pieces he might, just like the helmet and jacket of a firefighter.

“Been confused at this. You understand, there was any person on this.”

The twisted beam from one of many towers.

“Simply wonderful to me how violent this was.”

And the faces of these misplaced.

“Households had been torn aside for what? For nothing.”

All of the whereas, he says museum staff round him had been taking them down, boxing them up.

“Feels a bit like they died once more, you already know?”

However not forgotten.

Howard captured tens of hundreds of photographs, making a digital tour.

“That’s an actual privilege.”

It may be seen on his net service, Museverse, together with round a dozen different museums in 4 states and two international locations. However this venture for Howard was distinctive.

“Simply actually made it private.”

Partly as a result of it’s gone, but additionally as a result of, like so many people, he too was modified by 9/11.

“I dunno. I misplaced a variety of my childhood that day,” Howard mentioned.

By way of Museverse, folks can subscribe and tour museums all over the world. It’s free to the museums, however they get half the cash, whereas Howard’s enterprise will get the opposite half.

Officers say lots of the shows from the 9/11 Tribute Museum will ultimately be placed on show on the New York State Museum in Albany.