You might have to pay a hefty $24 to experience the 9/11 Museum when it opens next week, but the twin reflecting pools that make up the museum's memorial are still free to visit. And now, the pools are even more accessible to the general public—the memorial plaza will be barrier-free during the museum's open hours.

The memorial has been fenced off since it opened to the public in 2011, but a spokesman with the 9/11 Museum tells us the plaza will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. Passersby in Lower Manhattan will be able to walk right up to the massive pools (large media cameras need to keep a 10 foot distance), though you CANNOT throw coins or any other objects into them. Please.

Walking home from poker in Battery Park City across just-unfenced 9/11 Memorial, deserted. Ethereal. Overwhelming. pic.twitter.com/vqNXjPw1tF — Lockhart Steele (@Lock) May 16, 2014

The removal of the barriers is particularly significant, marking the first time the Ground Zero site has been unfenced since the September 11 attacks over a decade ago. The pools sit in the footprints of the Twin Towers—at long last, the site can rejoin the rest of the city.