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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In case you missed it. The beacon known as the Tribute in Light will burn bright through the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks thanks to funding secured by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, or LMDC.LMDC also approved additional funding for t
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay kick starts the new "9/11, Today and Tomorrow" speakers series at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site. The entire speakers series can be viewed in HD online at THIRTEEN Forum and downloaded for free at Apple's
Meet James T. Connors, a commercial real estate veteran with more than two decades of experience. He has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Operations for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels said
Meet Birgit Weschollek of Herne, Germany. She's seen here with a yellow arrow pointing her out (The arrow was added by 9/11 Memorial staff). In late March, Birgit became the 500,000th visitor of the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, which opened August 2009 o
The events of 9/11 inspired many things, from charitable donations to a need to volunteer. But they also inspired a wealth of artwork documenting what transpired before, on and after 9/11. So many people were move
The 9/11 Memorial pools - each about an acre in size - are now completely framed in steel. 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels said the construction achievement is "a true marker of progress at the World Trade Center site with these two pools helping to
9/11 Memorial Museum Director Alice M. Greenwald recently wrote in Curator: The Museum Journal about the challenges of building a museum in a location where thousands of people were killed in an unprecedented event that altered the course of humanity. The
Get out the VOTE for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Your votes could help the nonprofit receive $200,000 from American Express through the Members Project, but we need your support.American Express and TakePart partnered to create the Me
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and StoryCorps are sharing with the public recorded 9/11 remembrances and a rotating exhibition of artifacts at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, 20 Vesey St., in Manhattan. Check out some of those recordings
We tend to go through a lot of tissues around here. I often joke that the 9/11 Memorial should partner with Kleenex, or I should invest in commercial tissue stock. I am one of two oral historians at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. I've conducted more than 150
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