The MEMO Blog

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, David Tessler, public policy manager on the Dangerous Organization team at Facebook, and Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, discussed the challenges that Facebook and other social media platforms face in countering violent extremism.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum paid tribute to those who served and those who are currently serving in the U.S. armed forces with a ceremony held on the Memorial plaza this morning.

During Salute to Service, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will welcome veterans and active members of the military, as well as the families and communities who support them.

Graeme Wood, author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, and Devorah Margolin of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism took part in a public program at the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 29, about the future of ISIS.

On Tuesday, November 5, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host a public program “Combating Terrorist Content: The Social Media Challenge,” which will feature speakers from Facebook and the Harvard Kennedy School, starting at 7 p.m.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's Anthony Gardner wrote a blog post for the onePULSE Foundation to comment on the challenge of memorialization and to reflect on his experience participating in the planning process for the eventual 9/11 Memorial.

Last week, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum hosted a free performance by and talk with renowned cellist and conductor Maestro Karim Wasfi in a public program in the Museum’s auditorium.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host a free performance by and talk with renowned cellist and conductor Maestro Karim Wasfi on Thursday, October 17, as part of the Memorial Museum’s fall 2019 public programs series.

Thanks to generous support from American Express, the Museum’s conservation team, along with consulting conservators, imaging and preservation specialists, architects and engineers, have been working over the past two years to record the storied history of the slurry wall and scrutinize and document its materials and condition. This information will influence approaches to conservation treatment and the long-term preservation of the wall.

“I had one picture left in the camera,” she reminisced. “And I can still so vividly remember looking at him through the camera and saying, ‘Smile baby, this is the last picture.’”