and on Independence Day it will have Liberty II,
photographs CMA
CGM Group, nicknamed the “little sister,” the statue is one-sixteenth the size of
the world-famous one that stands on Liberty Island, last Monday, during a special
ceremony, the smaller sibling was lifted and loaded into a special container at
the National Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) in central Paris, where it has
been installed since 2011 in the museum’s garden,
the statue will be erected on Ellis Island, just across the water from the original, from July 1 to July 5, the journey
for the "little sister" has already begun, following the footsteps of
the original statue, it will board a ship at the port city of Le Havre on June
19 and reach New York on July 1, its final destination will be Washington, DC,
where it will be on display for 10 years at the French ambassador's residence, for the full story have a look here.
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