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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Sean Rooney and his wife Beverly Eckert met when they were 16 years old at a high school dance. They married and lived in an old Victorian house they restored in Stamford, Conn.
The oral histories collected by 9/11 Memorial Museum span the range of the whole human experience. The tales of bravery and loss, endurance and suffering and life and death often have one element in common: love.
Though the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s inaugural special exhibition, Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11, opened in September 2016 the installation continues to evolve.
VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi has traveled the world investigating the origins and impact of the world’s deadliest terrorist organizations.
Jillian Suarez was 9 years old when her father NYPD officer Ramon Suarez gave his life saving others on Sept. 11, 2001.
As the World Trade Center site continues to evolve, reflections off the glass façade of the 9/11 Memorial Museum are ever changing.
As Orlando continues its healing journey after a nightclub shooting that killed 49 people and injured more than 50 others, city officials planted a Survivor Tree seedling in the hope that the tree will “grow into a symbol of our community's resiliency.”
Eight months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the FDNY football team suited up to battle the NYPD in their annual game for charity. But in 2002, the Finest versus the Bravest game would take place at Giant’s Stadium so 15,000 fans could honor them as heroes.
On the evening of Sept 10. 2001, Andrea Haberman considered giving up on her trip to New York. Her flight out of Chicago O’Hare International Airport had been canceled twice due to weather.
Visitors to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum are encouraged to leave handwritten messages of remembrance, hope and love at the interactive registry known as the Signing Steel.
