when was the base constructed for the statue of liberty?
On October 7, 2016, construction started on a new Statue of Liberty museum on Liberty Island. The new $70 million, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) museum will be able to accommodate all of the island's visitors when it opens in 2019, as opposed to the current museum, which only 20% of the island's visitors can visit.
Credit: Image courtesy of American Memory at the Library of Congress. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.. âPresident Grover Cleveland accepting the Statue of Liberty. on behalf of the U.S., October 28th, 1886. A symbol stands for an idea. The Statue of Liberty stands in Upper New York Bay, a universal symbol of freedom.