A new version of the Newseum’s popular FBI exhibit, “Inside Today’s FBI: Fighting Crime in the Age of Terror” explores how crime and crime-fighting have evolved in the post-9/11 era. The FBI’s mission of fighting terrorism, spies and cybercriminals is a major focus of the new exhibit, which features never-before-displayed evidence and artifacts from some of the bureau’s biggest cases. The FBI has been making headlines for more than 100 years, and the exhibit highlights the bureau’s sometimes cooperative, sometimes combative relationship with the press.
More than 45 new artifacts are on display, including the Toyota Corolla abandoned by 9/11 hijackers at Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., and a Nissan Pathfinder that was rigged with explosives in a failed attempt to bomb Times Square in 2010. The exhibit also displays artifacts from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, including the handcuffs that restrained bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and a mobile fingerprinting device that identified his brother, Tamerlan.
The Newseum’s original FBI exhibit was the first temporary exhibit to open after the Newseum moved from Arlington, Va., to Washington, D.C., in 2008. The exhibit proved so popular with visitors that its run was extended indefinitely until it finally closed for renovations in July 2015. Some of the most significant artifacts from the old FBI exhibit remain on display, including the Unabomber’s cabin, engine parts and landing gear from United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, and the shoes worn by shoe bomber Richard Reid in an attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight in December 2001.
A new interactive experience will allow visitors to uncover how the FBI in 2013 shut down Silk Road, an online black market for illegal drugs and firearms located in the Internet’s hidden “darknet.”
The exhibit also includes two new original Newseum video productions exploring how the FBI is battling global terrorism and cybercrime.
Responsibilities include: Graphic Design, 3D modeling, fabrication drawings, artifact mount making drawings.
Artifact: The vehicle of the New York's, Time Square bomber.
Artifact: This Kel-Tec 9mm rifle and five magazines of ammunition were found inside a car Faisal Shahzad (Times Square bomber) parked at John F. Kennedy airport.
3D drawing of the Kel-Tec 9mm within an artifact case for designing artifact mounts.
Section of the exhibit highlighting the Boston Marathon bombing. The artifact case includes objects such as the handcuffs used to arrest Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the FBI's mobile Biometric Collection Integrated Platform which helped identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Artifact case displaying various IEDs.
Artifact: 9/11 hijacker's car. This car transported American Airlines Flight 77 hijackers from San Diego to Dulles Airport in Virginia.
Domestic Terror section in the exhibit. Content includes the profiling of the Oklahoma City Bombing, D.C. sniper, Capitol Building bomber and the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing.
Exhibit section exploring the Unabomber. Artifacts in this section include the cabin where Theodore Kaczynski lived in the Montana wilderness.