Going Forward

The next step will be to form a team of museum planners and conservators, architects and others to design a venue to display the trees. The interpretation will talk about the life cycle of steel — from scrap to plate steel to product.
It is appropriate that these artifacts should come home to Coatesville as they were made here. Here they will be displayed in a large area as a reminder of the events of 9/11. The trees will be freely accessible to the public, so all can see them and pay tribute to the victims, survivors and the First Responders who were there in New York on that September day in 2001, and also to the steelworkers from Lukens Steel who made them in the first place.

Artist's concept of the future National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum