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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Among this diverse league of dedicated women involved in the rescue and recovery efforts, today we share but four, whose stories and experiences have been captured in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s collection.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum has just launched its newest virtual tour offering, which provides an exclusive look at the special exhibition, Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden.
Some thought New York City would never recover from 9/11, but it did, and it came back stronger than before. We will come through the challenges we face today, we’ll bear the scars, we’ll remember the ones we lost, but we will come through it.
This March, the 20th anniversary of the Bamiyan Buddhas’ destruction, provides a sobering reminder that violence and terrorism continue to threaten humanity’s shared cultural heritage. Yet it also presents an opportunity to reflect on the beauty that can come out of peaceful cultural exchange—like the meeting of people and ideas that created the Bamiyan Buddhas so many centuries ago.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum has launched “Ask an Educator,” a brand-new virtual school program for students in grades 3–12.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum held an intimate, socially distanced ceremony to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
In conversation with Clifford Chanin, executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, Rangappa and Ehrie discussed the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism, political disinformation, the role of social media in perpetuating extremism, and prevention efforts for law enforcement and the new administration.
More than 1,000 people were injured on February 26, 1993, most suffering from smoke inhalation. When Walter Travers finally returned home that cold February evening, exhausted, he shed his gray, smoke-stained white button-down shirt.
A deeper look into investigation of the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center.
As we prepare to mark the 28th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center that took place on February 26, 1993, with a commemorative ceremony and a virtual tour, we take a moment to remember the six people killed in the first terror attack on the Twin Towers.
