The MEMO Blog

Amanda Davis, author-illustrator and art instructor, reflects on the 20th anniversary of the attacks and her efforts to make the story of the National 9/11 Flag accessible to young people through her illustrated book 30,000 Stitches, available for purchase in the Museum gift shop. 30,000 Stitches captures the sorrow, suffering, sacrifice, and love that went into the healing of the flag, and in turn helped heal everyone involved. 

In this milestone year, we're launching a new awareness and fundraising campaign to support our educational programs and our mission to fulfill the collective promise never to forget. The campaign includes the launch of a limited edition keepsake Never Forget Ticket and a special focus on teaching a new generation the lessons we learned on 9/11 and the days that followed. 

On July 19, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum hosted members of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Correction Captains’ Association, and Assistant Deputy Wardens and Deputy Wardens Association – along with their families – for a special Community Evenings visit highlighting the DOC’s contributions during and after the attacks.

The White House has designated the site of the Pulse Nightclub a national memorial, after the club's owner sought insight and support from our team following the June 2016 attack. 

Our annual July 4 tradition continues Sunday, when volunteers will place 2,983 American flags in the engraved names on the 9/11 Memorial, in honor of those killed on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum Visionary Network has launched an initiative aimed at restoring and cleaning local memorials across the country. Volunteers are already hard at work, planting commemorative trees and connecting with their communities ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.    

In conversation with Clifford Chanin, executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, the program participants shared their personal recollections of 9/11 and its aftermath and discussed the devastating health issues affecting the rescue and recovery community nearly 20 years after the attacks.

On Sunday, May 30, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum observed an intimate commemorative moment to mark the 19th anniversary of the end of the nine-month rescue, recovery, and relief effort at the World Trade Center site and the two-year anniversary of the 9/11 Memorial Glade dedication.

Recovery workers, as well as relatives and friends of victims, affixed mementos and wrote inscriptions on the last column to be cut from the World Trade Center site, filling its surfaces to honor those lost. Now standing in Foundation Hall, the column still bears the markings and memorial tributes. In advance of the 19th anniversary of the end of the rescue and recovery effort, we highlight a few of these markings and tributes and their significance.

The 9/11 Memorial Museum mourns the death of artist and donor Samuel Kaplan, who died at age 93, one day after his painting Requiem rotated into public view in the Education Center/South Tower gallery of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.