Planning for the Museum

Exhibition planning for the Museum is underway. The Museum’s exhibitions will display artifacts, both monumental and intimate, associated with the events of September 11, presenting compelling stories of loss, compassion, reckoning, and recovery. The core exhibitions will be located at bedrock, within and alongside the historical footprints of the Twin Towers. The primary exhibition will chronicle the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, examine the background leading up to these attacks, and explore their aftermath and continuing implications.

A memorial exhibition will honor the victims of the attacks of 2001 and 1993, and a special exhibition designed specifically to tell the story of September 11 for families and groups with younger children will also be offered.

The Museum will also be home to an ever-enlarging, interactive archive of images, oral histories, film, and digitally-conceived artifacts, serving members of the public seeking to learn and contribute; scholars and historians researching and reporting on September 11; and educators, journalists, and other groups looking to download lesson plans and develop relevant programs.

Past Exhibitions

National Tour, Tribute Exhibition
September 10, 2007 December 16, 2007

The tribute exhibition traveled to 25 cities in 25 states, telling the story of September 11 through photographs, artifacts and a short film from the point of view of families, responders, survivors, volunteers and everyday people who came together in the aftermath of the attacks. Approximately 30,000 visitors paid tribute to the victims and signed a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum.

here: remembering 9/11
August 23, 2006 June 20, 2007

here: remembering 9/11, located outdoors on the fence surrounding the World Trade Center site, featured large-scale images drawn from the archive of here is new york: a democracy of photographs, as well as images of “survivor” artifacts from the World Trade Center in the care of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.

9/11 and the American Landscape: Photographs by Jonathan Hyman
September 8 - October 7, 2006

9/11 and the American Landscape: Photographs by Jonathan Hyman, captured some of the multiplicity of personal tributes and grassroots memorials created in response to the September 11 attacks, presenting a unique chronicle of post-9/11 society as seen through the American vernacular. A full-color catalogue accompanied the exhibition and included an essay by writer and former news columnist Pete Hamill. The exhibition was held at WTC7, the first buildinig to be rebuilt at the site.