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FDNY Ladder 3 firetruck recovered from the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Courtesy of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Learn more at Inside the Collection.
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The Collection
The 9/11 Memorial Museum’s permanent collection is an unparalleled repository consisting of material evidence, first-person testimony, and historical records of response to February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001 and the ongoing repercussions of these terrorist events. To date, the Museum has acquired 83,000+ artifacts that document the fate of victims, survivors, and responders.
Inside the Collection
Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum. Gift of Special Agent Robert Irwin. Learn more at Inside the Collection.
Photo by Jin S. Lee
To learn more about the scope of the Museum’s permanent collection, please visit Inside the Collection, an online catalog with a searchable database of select objects. The database is growing continually to bring more of the Museum’s rich holdings to a wider audience.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is the proud recipient of a grant to create the Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives Initiative at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, which supported the digitization of special collections and the recording of oral histories, both now available on the catalog. The grant also funded the acquisition of a digital asset management system (DAMS) serving as the Museum's first centralized repository for digital collections and institutional archive materials.
Conservation
Our team preserves and protects the material legacy of 9/11. Learn more about how collection's stewardship preserves the story of 9/11 and how you can support this important work.
Give to the Collection
Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of Anthony and Maryann Gambale, in Memory of Giovanna Gambale. Learn more at Inside the Collection.
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The Museum is actively accepting donations to the permanent collection. If you have objects, documents, or images of a historical or commemorative nature, or a story to share that you believe might be of interest to the Museum, please tell us about them by using the link below.
Quilts from the collection on view at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.
Outgoing Loans
To help fulfill its mission, the Museum may choose to lend items from its collections for exhibition and educational purposes to other non-profit cultural and educational institutions, archives and museums.
Oral Histories
Photo by Jin S. Lee
The 9/11 Memorial Museum’s oral history archive tells the story of 9/11 through recorded interviews conducted from different perspectives, offering the immediacy of first-person testimony of lived experiences.