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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While state and federal guidelines prohibit group tours, we are offering Virtual 9/11 Memorial Tours every morning beginning Thursday, July 9, 2020.
On Sunday, the 9/11 Memorial will reopen to the general public with new operational safeguards following a months-long closure because of the health crisis. Here's what you need to know.
After a special Independence Day opening for 9/11 families and the extended 9/11 community, as well as workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 9/11 Memorial will reopen to the public on Sunday.
With sadness and respect, the 9/11 Memorial Museum notes the death last week of Milton Glaser, on June 26. Illustrator, graphics designer, art director, teacher, founder of a succession of creative enterprises, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts (2009), Glaser was the consummate New Yorker.
This digital exhibition reconstructs what the U.S. government knew about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years prior to the 9/11 attacks, and the 10 years of inter-agency efforts that led to the raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad compound.
On Friday, June 19, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum continued its digital public program series When the World Changes with Jeh Johnson, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2013–2017).
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum partnered with the USO of Metropolitan New York and the Stephen Siller Tunnels to Towers Foundation earlier this month to deliver more than 1,000 masks to frontline responders across the city.
The Band of Dads spent months at Ground Zero searching for their missing sons who had followed them into the uniformed rescue services.
Overwhelmed by grief, fear, and anger in the wake of 9/11, people around the world searched for ways to help. For those unable to participate in the rescue and recovery efforts at the attack sites, quilt making became an option for offering practical, creative, and symbolic consolation to, and support for those who were directly affected by the attacks.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is launching a major fundraising campaign to reopen the Memorial on Saturday, July 4.
