The beige walk-through metal detector is part of every air traveler?s life. Now the machine is also part of the collection of the National Museum of American History.
The Transportation Security Administration donated more than two dozen items to the museum Thursday for its official repository of the materials of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Several of the TSA items are part of a temporary exhibition, ?September 11: Remembrance and Reflection.?
The museum decided to display on open tables more than 50 items that it has collected over the past decade so the public can have unobstructed views. ?This is an unprecedented close-up view of the 9/11 objects,? said Marc Pachter, the museum?s interim director.
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