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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The last day to see “Rendering the Unthinkable,” an exhibition of artwork by 13 artists and their reactions to the events of 9/11, will be Sunday, Jan. 21, 2017.
Registration is now open for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum 5K Run/Walk and Community Day. Join the thousands who gather annually in lower Manhattan and run to remember the resilience of New York City, honor the heroes and commemorate how we came together after a day of unimaginable tragedy.
As a professional photographer, one of the things I enjoy most about photographing the Memorial often is being able to capture it in its many forms throughout different seasons and times of day. This photograph shows a rare moment when the Memorial and Museum were open but with fewer people than are usually there.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s winter 2018 public programming schedule will feature correspondents and producers from “VICE News” on HBO; Mary Jo White, who prosecuted the plotters of the February 26, 1993, attack on the World Trade Center; and special guests from “The Looming Tower,” a dramatic limited series debuting on Hulu in February.
Registration is open for the Chancellor’s Day Professional Development workshop at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The free, full-day program on Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, will impart the significance of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, while underscoring the ongoing relevance of the attacks 16 years later.
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.
