What An Educational Thrilling Experience As A Field Trip To Liberty Island, the Statue of Liberty

What an educational thrilling experience as a field trip to Liberty Island, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, NYC. What an educational thrilling experience as a field trip observing and exploring Liberty Island, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, NYC. I truly believe that it would be an outstanding, wonderful, magnificent and great educational experience for any student body to sightsee, explore and visit the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, NYC. This would be an outstanding and thrilling sight viewing and historically educational experience for any student body. As for me. I already visited the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. on a Hampton University field trip through the Howard Hughes program in 1994. It was a knowledgeable; sight viewing, exploring, observing, learning, historical, educational and researching experience. My student body observed, explored, researched, learned and viewed the many; world-class museums, art cultures, art exhibits and art galleries. Also. It has a wonderful and terrific zoo of observation. This was a learning educational and historical experience for me and the student body. I believe visiting the Statue of Liberty would too also be a magnificent; sight viewing, exploring, observing, learning, educational and researching experience, as well. The Statue of Liberty is a neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in NYC, USA. The copper statue was dedicated as a gift of freedom and liberty to the USA on October 28, 1886. It is a gift from France to the people of America. The statue was designed by the French sculptor Fredric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas. Libertas is a robed Roman liberty goddess. The Statue of Liberty holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and carries a tabula ansata(tablet), in which, she carries in her left hand has inscribed in Roman Numerals "July IV-MDCCLXXVI" which is July 4, 1776. That was the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lay at her feet, commemorating the national abolition of slavery. The statue became a symbol of freedom and a national park tourism destination. It is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving to the United States of America. The height of the copper statue is 151ft. and 1in. The foundation of pedestal from ground level to the tip of torch is 305ft. and 1in. The height of hand is 16ft. and 5 inches. The index finger is 8ft. and 1in. The distance across the eyes are 2ft. and 6 inches. The length of the nose is 4ft. And 6 inches. The right arm length is 42ft. The width of the statues mouth is 3ft. The weight of copper used for the statue is 60,000lbs. The weight of steel used in the statue is 250,000lbs. The total weight of the statue is 450,000lbs. And the thickness of copper sheeting is 2.4mm. There is no charge made for entrance to the national monument. But there is a cost for the ferry service that all visitors must pay. All ferry riders are subject to security screening prior to boarding the ferry. Just like the security screenings of airport procedures. Visitors who intend to enter the statue's base and pedestal must obtain a complimentary museum/pedestal ticket along with their ferry ticket. And visitors who wish to climb the staircase within the statue up to the crown must purchase a special ticket. This ticket may be reserved up to a year in advance. A total of 240 people per day are permitted to ascend up to the crown: ten per group, three groups per hour. Climbers may bring only medication and cameras. Lockers are provided for other items and must undergo a second security screening. The ferry tickets are normally $18.50. I believe that this tour of the Statue of Liberty historical monument will be an exciting, magnificent and thrilling, but learning historical and educational wonderful experience. 🗽