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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During Salute to Service, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will welcome veterans and active members of the military, as well as the families and communities who support them.
Graeme Wood, author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, and Devorah Margolin of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism took part in a public program at the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 29, about the future of ISIS.
On Tuesday, November 5, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host a public program “Combating Terrorist Content: The Social Media Challenge,” which will feature speakers from Facebook and the Harvard Kennedy School, starting at 7 p.m.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's Anthony Gardner wrote a blog post for the onePULSE Foundation to comment on the challenge of memorialization and to reflect on his experience participating in the planning process for the eventual 9/11 Memorial.
Last week, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum hosted a free performance by and talk with renowned cellist and conductor Maestro Karim Wasfi in a public program in the Museum’s auditorium.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host a free performance by and talk with renowned cellist and conductor Maestro Karim Wasfi on Thursday, October 17, as part of the Memorial Museum’s fall 2019 public programs series.
Thanks to generous support from American Express, the Museum’s conservation team, along with consulting conservators, imaging and preservation specialists, architects and engineers, have been working over the past two years to record the storied history of the slurry wall and scrutinize and document its materials and condition. This information will influence approaches to conservation treatment and the long-term preservation of the wall.
“I had one picture left in the camera,” she reminisced. “And I can still so vividly remember looking at him through the camera and saying, ‘Smile baby, this is the last picture.’”
On the heels of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, considered diplomacy’s largest stage, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will host the public program “American Diplomacy in a Post-9/11 Era” on Monday, October 7, starting at 7 p.m.
Now on view in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s memorial exhibition is Arkady Zaltsman’s architectural drawing donated to the Museum’s collection by his wife and daughter.
