The Associated Press
NEW YORK — More than 300 children’s artworks inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks — including drawings of crumbling skyscrapers with Band-Aids on them and firefighters’ ladders ascending to the buildings’ top stories — have been donated to the World Trade Center Memorial Museum.
The art, including drawings, paintings, collages and paper cranes, was saved by the American Red Cross. Children from across the country sent art to the Red Cross to deliver to rescue workers; other art was produced at family workshops by children of Sept. 11 victims.
The museum’s curator, Jan Seidler Ramirez, said Tuesday that seeing the events of Sept. 11, 2001, interpreted through the eyes of children “is an important part of understanding the impact of Sept. 11.”
“This artwork demonstrates how children were deeply affected by the attacks, how they tried to help and make sense of what happened in cognitively appropriate ways, and reminds us that children were also eyewitnesses to this unfolding history,” the curator said.
Other donated drawings show a police officer and a rescue dog searching through trade center ruins and ambulances on their way to the twin towers.
The museum is scheduled to open in 2009 along with a memorial.
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World Trade Center Memorial Foundation: http://www.buildthememorial.org/redcross