1 of 8. A fire helmet Squad 252 recovered belonging to deceased firefighters member Kevin m. Prior is seen in this photograph before becoming a part of the national September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, August 22, 2011. Kevin Prior, a firefighter with 252 of Brooklyn cast, can be seen in the video of the lobby of the North Tower burned after the first plane hit getting ready to go up there. In response to a mayday call sent by firefighters colleagues face breathing problems, he and five other members of the cast are thought to have been a floor above when the Tower collapsed. Prior's body was found three weeks after the attacks and buried on Long Island, but his mother was troubled that his helmet was not returned to the family and the said in a television interview. An official in the Office of Chief Medical examiner happened to capture, transmission and squad numbers recognized emblem of prior and hand-delivered the severely damaged helmet for his family grateful. The Museum, which occupies seven stories below ground of the World Trade Center site-still being built on the site of the fallen towers. It is due only to open in 2012, in the 11th anniversary of the attacks.

NEW YORK | Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:55 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-Trustees are making difficult choices in the recording of the attacks of September 11, 2001 Museum in place of the fallen Towers of the World Trade Center, with the aim of conveying the horror of the event without invading in ghoulishness.

"We are not here to traumatize our visitors," said Alice Greenwald, director of the Museum of 9/11 Memorial in New York that is about to open in his underground House on the site of the Zero point next year in the 11th anniversary of the attacks.

"Monumental artifacts are one thing, but we also have a human history to say," Greenwald said.

Some of the most potentially disruptive exhibitions are being set aside from the main exhibition spaces in special alcoves to allow visitors the opportunity to decide to see it or not.

It is here that the Trustees of the Museum were introduced material, such as images of people burning towers fall after the buildings were hit by planes hijacked by militants of al-Qaeda and a voice recording measured a flight attendant on board an aircraft moments before his death.

For museum curators, decide whether to include examples of painful final moments of some of the victims was one of its most difficult dilemmas as sought to pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed without piling more suffering for life.

It is a problem familiar to people in order to memorialize wars and atrocities.

"We are not just a Museum of history, we're also a memorial and so the tension that occurs between the commemoration and documentation is a flashpoint," Greenwald said in an interview at the headquarters of the Museum, with a view to the ongoing construction of a facility that will occupy seven solo stories in the World Trade Center site.

Greenwald is no stranger to these debates. For almost two decades, she helped create views on national Holocaust Museum in Washington writing murder of millions of people in the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

"The story of 9/11"

Greenwald and his colleagues are aware that there are numerous objects that might overwhelm a visitor.

There will be photos of the 19 hijackers al Qaeda, although Greenwald said that will be presented as "criminals".

Another difficult issue for Trustees was whether to include disturbing photos of victims who jumped or fell from Torres. Delete this photo would be a serious omission, Greenwald said. The photos are located in an alcove clearly marked with a warning and none of the people in the photo are identifiable, "she added.

"Is one of the aspects of the history of 9/11, that if you don't include it, you're not telling the story," she said.

In the choice of audio recordings of last words spoken by about victims, the Museum avoided some of the most distressing calls to the emergency telephone number 911. Greenwald "which is a form of human remains," he said. "We will include anything that feels like a moment when we should not have been there".

Instead, the Trustees chose recordings with the permission of the families of the victims that show the Greenwald called the "exceptional nature" of many of the dead in the attacks.

This includes voice remarkably composed of Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, as it relays the details bloody kidnapping colleagues on the ground in the minutes before the plane crashed in the North Tower.

The Museum has acquired hundreds of items belonging to victims, survivors and rescuers.

The significance of the helmet of a firefighter horribly mangled is obvious. Other items that may be more subtle in its importance: hardened dust shoes, a wallet, a knit clothing crumpled never finished project, a doll blackened-all common items that were in the air of the relics.

The Museum has been carved out of the vastness of the World Trade Center's foundations and incorporates the slurry wall, originally built to hold back the waters of the Hudson River and that survived the fall of the buildings.

There will be an exhibition of memorial to the 2,982 people killed in the attacks of September 11 and the bombings of 1993 World Trade Center that were a prelude to the event later. The output of the Museum was designed to allow visitors to emerge at the heart of the 9/11 Memorial-waterfalls to the footprints of the fallen towers surrounded by bronze panels with the names of the dead.

"For each heart-wrenching story that you have 10 stories about the goodness of the human being," Greenwald said. Referring to future visitors of the Museum, he added, "they will go out with a lot to think about."

(Edited by Will Dunham)

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