The MEMO Blog

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.

Join thousands of students and teachers from around the world to commemorate the 19th anniversary of 9/11 by registering for this free program.

We will welcome Secretary Jeh Johnson, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2013–2017) to our digital program “Homeland Security in a Time of Crisis,” on June 19.

A photograph of three firefighters hoisting an American flag above the scorched ruins and persistent fires of the World Trade Center site became a symbol of hope and rebuilding in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. But soon after its raising, the flag disappeared from Ground Zero.