The official blog of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum features stories of commemoration and memorialization, and information on our public programs, special events, and ways to get involved.
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For an exhibition professional, there is great satisfaction in seeing visitors in the galleries of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Josephine Smith, the daughter of a FDNY firefighter who was killed on 9/11, recently graduated from the Fire Academy. Following in her father’s footsteps, Smith says it was a “bittersweet” moment.
In summer 2001, brothers Gedeon and Jules Naudet were creating a documentary film about FDNY Ladder Company 1, which shares its quarters in lower Manhattan with Engine Company 7 and Battalion 1.
For 9/11 Memorial Museum docent Maria Jaffe, volunteering is her way of honoring the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11.
Although Brian Clark and Stanley Praimnath were in two separate offices of the South Tower on 9/11, each heard the impact of hijacked Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower.
To honor the veterans who fought for our country overseas in the weeks and months after Sept. 11, 2001, the 9/11 Memorial Museum partnered with Google to launch a one-of-a-kind installation, now available in the museum’s Foundation Hall as part of the Salute to Service program.
Thirteen students from Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, along with two from Millennium High School in lower Manhattan, volunteered their time on Saturday morning to cleaning up the 9/11 Memorial plaza.
Like so many Americans, 13 years later, I still have such vivid memories of 9/11. I can tell you about the beautiful, cloudless, high-pressure sky that greeted what looked to be a perfect September Tuesday.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lauren Burns, the daughter of Ellen and Doug Burns, was jogging in lower Manhattan when she witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The 9/11 Memorial Museum has launched a Tumblr blog.
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