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Statue of Liberty Museum Opens

The approximately $70 million, 26,000-square-foot museum is expected to welcome about 4.4 million visitors each year.

Statue of Liberty Museum/ Photo credit: DeSimone Consulting Engineers Statue of Liberty Museum/ Photo credit: DeSimone Consulting Engineers

NEW YORK CITY—After breaking ground in October 2016 and topping out in December 2017, the new Museum of the Statue of Liberty at 1 Liberty Island recently opened to the public. The museum is jointly operated by the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation and the National Park Service. It’s just steps away from the iconic national monument.

FXCollaborative and DeSimone Consulting Engineers were the architects and engineers behind the recently unveiled 26,000-square-foot building, which now provides 15,000 square feet of new exhibition space. Construction costs for the new cultural facility were approximately $70 million.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.

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