original interactive museum will be first building constructed on Liberty Island in decades In an election year where immigration and talks of building a wall between the US and Mexico dominate,the unveiling of plans on Thursday for a original $70m Statue of Liberty museum to be built honoring liberty and mass migration seemed particularly timely.
“Lady Liberty is a symbol of everything America’s about: freedom, hope, or possibility and resilience,” said designer Diane von Furstenberg, chair of the fundraising campaign raising money for the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.
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Source: theguardian.com