The MEMO Blog

Jon Stewart, 9/11 Memorial & Museum board member and first responder advocate, hosted a Facebook Live event from the museum on Sunday to urge an additional 30,000 eligible 9/11 responders and survivors to enroll in the World Trade Center Health Program.

In the spirit of giving for the holiday season, a recent visitor to the 9/11 Memorial Museum made a generous donation of $500 to the non-profit.

In partnership with the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, the inaugural Never Forget Tribute Classic on Dec. 10 raised scholarship funds for the children of victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Madeline Amy Sweeney found her calling as a flight attendant a year after graduating from college. The Long Island native drove from Boston to California to start a career in fashion, and after a year, decided to instead become a flight attendant in Dallas.

Blue Man Group founder Chris Wink was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Shocked and horrified by the terror attacks and the traumatic aftermath, Wink and cofounders Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton sought a way to cope with the tragedy through art.

The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

Christopher Briggs Young wasn’t usually at the World Trade Center. Weeks before Sept. 11, the aspiring actor took a temporary job at the Midtown office of the global professional services firm Marsh & McLellan.

Two years after opening, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum has been named the sixth most Instagrammed museum in the world by Instagram.

The haunting sound of bagpipes echoes in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s Foundation Hall on most Wednesday afternoons.

The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.