Museum Offers Tour, Guide Options for Visitors

A guide leads a tour inside the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. About a dozen people watch on as he talks and gestures at an object unseen.
A guide leads a tour inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum. (Photo: Amy Dreher)

The 9/11 Memorial Museum has different tour options you can choose from for your visit.

Staff members lead 60-minute guided tours, available daily, during which they examine artifacts to teach about the events surrounding 9/11, its aftermath and the history of the World Trade Center. You can book a tour with admission here.

The Museum offers the 9/11 Museum Audio Guide app, which features stories from the day of the attacks and recovery at Ground Zero. It also presents details of the Museum’s archeological elements and the architectural designs of the Memorial and Museum. The app is available in various languages. Read more here, and download for Apple or Android devices.

In addition, a downloadable guide aims to help children ages 8 to 11 understand the events surrounding 9/11 and the recovery that followed. Another guide, also available for download, contains suggested, self-guided pathways to take during your Museum visit.

Read more about the Museum’s tour options.

By Jordan Friedman, 9/11 Memorial Research and Digital Projects Associate

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