About Your Visit
Masks are not required, but visitors are welcome and encouraged to wear them. Visitors must also follow our evolving health and safety guidelines, and prepare for ongoing operational changes to ensure a safe Museum experience for all. Learn more about how to get here, accessibility resources, visitor guidelines, and where to visit nearby.
![A memorial pool is illuminated at night. Yellow lights are glow in the background as bluish light is reflected in the foreground.](/sites/default/files/paragraph/hero-banner/2020-07/New-Visit-Winters_911_WTC_Museum_9971_Final_0.jpg)
Health and Safety
![The Survivor Tree stands slightly to the left in this photograph of the Memorial plaza. The tree's dark green leaves are contrasted by the lighter green leaves of the trees on either side of it.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/health-safety-plaza-survivor.jpeg?itok=hYWUjT2_)
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment for visitors and staff, and will continue to follow city, state, and federal safety guidelines.
A Safe Museum Experience
![The Last Column and the Slurry Wall in Foundation Hall are shown in the distance in this view from the overlook.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/Museum%20Safety3.jpg?itok=dLWkooMz)
All visitors to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum must follow our health and safety guidelines. Masks are optional but encouraged. We will continue to make operational changes as needed in order to provide a safe and healthy environment for all visitors and staff.
Learn and Explore from Home
![Two eighty-foot tall steel columns, known as the Tridents, tower over the interior of the museum Pavilion. One World Trade Center points skyward outside the windows.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/COM%20MUSEUM%20GEN%20%283%29.jpg?itok=OPH0efp2)
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum offers you the opportunity to share in our commitment to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 and 1993 attacks, honor the courage of the first responders, and learn about the attacks and their aftermath through a host of online resources.
Getting Here
![Dozens of people walk in the shade of oak trees outside the Museum Pavilion on a warm, sunny day.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/Visit-GettingHere0JL_BD%20GENERALS_16.jpg?itok=rvLMqSxM)
The Memorial and the Museum are located at 180 Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan and are easily reachable by public transportation.
Accessibility
![A man speaking in sign language is silhouetted against a bright screen at the Museum.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/Visit-Accessibility-MUS%20VISION%20PROG.jpg?itok=rIeScZRu)
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is committed to ensuring access to the Memorial and the Museum for all visitors and seeks to provide an equal opportunity for every individual to honor and remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
Visitor Guidelines
![Rows of green grass, ivy beds, and granite pathways continue parallel to one another across the Memorial Plaza. Nothing is in the foreground except for the trunk of a single oak tree. In the distance, people walk and sit under the Plaza’s many trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/VISIT-Visitor-GuidelinesJL_PLAZAGEN0910_03.jpg?itok=v3KWs5nS)
Please be reminded that the Memorial and the Museum are sites of remembrance and quiet reflection. We ask that all visitors respect this place made sacred through tragic loss.
Where to Stay
![Water cascades down the illuminated walls of the North Tower reflecting pool on a warm night. The water pours down a square hole at the center of the pool. In the distance, a moon hangs over the city and the Tribute in Light shines above the buildings.](/sites/default/files/styles/full_bleed/public/paragraph/std-img-text-cta/2020-10/Visit-Tribute-LightJL_911TRIBUTELIGHTS_20_0.jpg?itok=obr94qfd)
As you plan your travel, please consider these local lower Manhattan businesses that support the annual presentation of Tribute in Light.