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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Due to the historic winter storm affecting the tristate area, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will close at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. The Memorial plaza is currently closed to the public. Last admission to the Museum will be at 2:00 p.m.
Corey Briest, a National Guard veteran who sustained a traumatic brain injury in Iraq, toured the 9/11 Memorial & Museum on Thursday, with his wife, Jenny, and their two children.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum closes out another significant year in its continuing efforts to preserve the memories of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and Feb. 26, 1993, to bring world-class exhibitions and programming to the public and to advise communities affected by tragedy on memorialization.
Sharing the Memorials Registry is a series devoted to highlighting the diverse ways in which individuals and communities commemorate the 9/11 victims through the creation of public memorials.
Michael D. Diehl was a devoted father and husband. Despite his high-stress job in finance, he always made time for the manifold sporting events and music recitals of his two children.
In 2001, Kevin Michael Williams seemed bound for a promising future. The 24-year-old had graduated magna cum laude from Boston College. The Long Island–native was an honor student as well as a talented athlete.
More than 500 New York City Police Department recruits visited the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Thursday morning to honor and remember the members of the NYPD who sacrificed their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
Native New Yorker Abraham J. Zelmanowitz lived in Brooklyn with his brother and his brother’s family. Abraham played chess and loved music, everything from opera to the Beatles. Jack Zelmanowitz recalled his brother Abraham as a thoughtful family man.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Maile Hale had a lifelong passion for the ocean. During a 2011 visit to the 9/11 Memorial, her two sisters, Marilyce and Martha, brought a jar of sand from Malaekahana Beach, where they spent time together while growing up on the island of Oahu.
When conserving artifacts in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s collection, staff conservators often analyze the item to answer a key question: what is the story that this object is trying to tell?
