9/11 takes its place alongside D-Day in French museum

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

CAEN, France (AFP) — A French history museum dedicated to the World War II D-Day landings is set to unveil the largest exhibit to date on another event that changed the world: the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"September 11: A Global Moment" opens Friday at the Caen memorial museum on a day that for decades had been reserved for the solemn commemoration of the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

"We thought it would be the perfect place to tell the story of a different kind of war," said Mark Schaming, the director of exhibitions and programmes at the New York State Museum, home to the exhibit's artefacts.

A crushed police jeep, pieces of fuselage from the hijacked planes and twisted sheathing of the World Trade Center towers: over 100 artefacts from...