The original torch, replaced by a replica in the 1980s, takes pride of place in the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island. S. Pelly / Musée des Arts et Métiers The Statue of Liberty ...

The Statue of Liberty, a hollow colossus composed of thinly pounded copper sheets over a steel framework, stands on an island at the entrance to New York Harbor. It was designed by sculptor Frédéric ...