The new 9/11 Museum and Memorial is nearing its completion after three years of construction and hard work below the ground where the twin towers used to stand.

Museum president Joseph Daniels took the Associated Press around the museum this week on a tour that provided a glimpse into the fascinating new venue. The museum's goal is to allow people to gain a better, more visual understanding of the way things unfolded on the fateful date in 2001.

"You're literally following the same pathway that hundreds followed on 9/11 to survival, to safety," museum director Alice Greenwald said. "In some respects, what we're saying to our visitors is, we all live in a world now that was defined by this event. And in that sense, we're all survivors of 9/11."

The underground museum leads people through one corridor after another, with one area featuring steel that was twisted from the impact of the airplane's crash into the towers.

"You can see how, at the bottom, the columns are bent back," Daniels said during the tour. "That's because Flight 11's nose, when it pierced the building, it bent steel like that."

The museum, which will apparently cost between $20 and $25 for admission according to the New York Daily News, is scheduled to open in the spring.

The organizers hope that the museum will create an educational experience, and they want to see each person leave with a new mindset.

"This is a museum, I like to say, that's not about answers," Greenwald said. "It's a museum about questions. And we end with questions, and we then invite the public to participate in that dialogue."