Resources

Access Museum resources such as interactive timelines, digital exhibitions (including a collection of downloadable posters that tell the story of 9/11), oral histories, registries, and the 9/11 primer, to learn more about the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 9/11 and its aftermath.

A blue, steel river water valve sits on a concrete floor. Screws line the border of the circular valve. It is in the open position, allowing the viewer to see through to the concrete wall behind it.

River water valve recovered from the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Courtesy of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Photo by Dan Winters

Interactive Timelines

Dozens of people approach after walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on September Eleventh. They have dust and soot from the World Trade Center in their hair. Behind them, hundreds more people cross the bridge. In the distance is the skyline of lower Manhattan, with a cloud of smoke hovering over downtown.

Collection 9/11 Museum, Roberto Rabanne Archive

Photo by Roberto Rabanne

Interactive timelines chronicle the events of September 11, 2001, the nine-month recovery effort at Ground Zero, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The timelines use images, audio, and video, as well as first-person accounts from the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s permanent collection.

Please note: The timelines contain some graphic images and sensitive content due to the explicit nature of events surrounding the 1993 bombing and the 9/11 attacks.

Digital Exhibitions

Hand with finger extended and touching a digital screen emitting a blue light
Photo by Jin S. Lee

The 9/11 Memorial Museum’s digital exhibitions offer online learners the opportunity to access the Museum’s collection of primary sources, research, and stories about the events of 9/11 and their ongoing impacts.

Oral Histories

At a table in a dimly lit room, a woman with her hands on her lap sits across from a man with a pencil and paper. There is a lamp on the table and microphones are positioned in front of the man and woman.
Photo by Jin S. Lee

The 9/11 Memorial Museum’s oral history collection tells the story of 9/11 through recorded interviews conducted from different perspectives, most of which cannot be fully captured through written sources.

Registries

The Last Column towers over NYPD flag bearers standing to the left and men in suits and ties standing to the right. The Last Column, a fixture of Foundation Hall, is covered in photos and written tribute to rescue and recovery workers.
Photo by Monika Graff

The registries offer a digital repository of stories and collective memory from the witnesses, survivors, rescue and recovery workers, and commemorators of 9/11 and the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

9/11 Primer

The 9/11 Primer provides educators and online learners with foundational information about the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers, the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath, and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site.