Normandy museum to host exhibit on World Trade Center attacks

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PARIS (AFP) — The largest exhibit to date on the US September 2001 World Trade Center attacks will open in June in Normandy, France, on the first stop of a transatlantic tour, organisers said Tuesday.

"A Global Moment" debuts at the Caen Memorial museum on June 6 -- coinciding with the 64th anniversary of the World War II D-Day allied invasion -- where it will remain until November 11, before moving to other European cities and then crossing the Atlantic for a show in New York or Washington DC.

"It's going to be the largest exhibition anywhere in the world" on the subject, Mark Schaming, director of the New York State Museum told reporters Tuesday in Paris.

The memorial exhibition to the New York terrorist strikes that killed almost 3,000 people will trace...