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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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Samuel Kaplan's Requiem captures the sad but hopeful spirit of post-9/11 New York. Today, the artist - who died last May - remains an icon of resilience, shaped by a life journey that took him from a childhood in Ukraine to the tragedy of the Holocaust and finally to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on the morning of the attacks.
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only house of worship destroyed on 9/11, was consecrated on July 4 after plans to rebuild it were derailed for years.
A letter from a family that recently visited us shares the unexpected response the Museum prompted in their autistic daughter.
Our new blog series "In Their Own Voices" is an expansion of the Q&As we published in May to mark the 20th anniversary of the formal end to rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero. This monthly series will continue to highlight the diversity and previously unimaginable undertaking of the rescue and recovery community. In its first installment, the Port Authority Police Department's John Ryan tells us about his involvement and his perspectives more than two decades later.
We're thrilled to announce the return this summer of the Art Cart, offering visitors with children free self-guided activities that shed light on the story of 9/11 and uncover unique design elements of the Memorial Plaza.
Works by the Dutch artist Frank Dammers and the American artist Derek Fordjour are newly on view in our Education Center gallery, each infused with definitive post-9/11 themes and its own backstory.
Alice Greenwald, President and CEO, and Clifford Chanin, Executive Vice President and Deputy Director of Museum Programs, talk about the ways their experience with the 9/11 Memorial helped inform the design of Norway's memorial to those killed on the island of Utøya in 2011.
Yurii Savchuk, director of Kyiv's National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, built a remarkable "living" exhibit about the war in his country - in just a month. Earlier this week, we welcomed him and Maria Shust, director of the Ukrainian Museum in NYC, for a special visit.
Dr. Alison Thompson, a 9/11 first responder, brought a little brightness to soldiers in war-torn Ukraine, when she delivered Stars of Hope that were hand-painted by Memorial & Museum staff in a gesture of support.
On May 30, a special ceremony marked the 20th anniversary of the official end to formal rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. Governor Kathy Hochul, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and first responder and advocate John Feal all spoke before an audience including members of the many agencies and organizations involved in the unprecedented operations after the attacks.
