9/11 Tribute Museum Closing NYC Location After More Than 15 Years, Going Fully Online

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9/11 Tribute Museum Closing NYC Location After More Than 15 Years, Going Fully Online


After months of being on life support, the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York City is set to close.

The Lower Manhattan museum, which opened its doors in 2006, will be closing for good on Wednesday, Aug. 17, a decision brought on after a sharp drop in visitors since the COVID-19 pandemic. The small and intimate museum had been located on Greenwich Street, not far from the National September 11 Memorial Museum that sits next to the memorial pools at the site where the former Twin Towers stood.

"Financial hardships including lost revenue caused by the pandemic prevents us from generating sufficient funding to continue to operate the physical museum," said Jennifer Adams, the co-founder and CEO of the museum, which was started by FDNY widows part of the non-profit organization known as the September 11th Families' Association.

The museum's reliance on international tourism has made it unsustainable during the pandemic. Annual admissions dropped substantially to 26,000 last year, compared to 150,000 in 2019.

Gordon Huie, a survivor who was in Tower 2 and whose brother was a victim, spoke to one of the last groups to walk through the museum. Huie, a doctor, helped the wounded.

"On that conference room table. No sheet or mattress. That’s when I started sewing people back together again," he told the group.

He called the museum "part of our history, this is a part of America. It just hurts so much we’re going to short change the world when we close this museum down."


The group said they had wanted a place to tell the stories of those they lost in the Sept. 11 attacks. Now, the museum's online presence will allow the group to keep providing educational resources and support for the 9/11 community. They will still be able to offer interactive engagement, including video stories of those impacted.

Much of the museum's collection will move up to the New York State Museum in Albany, with the group coordinating with donors to ensure that the exhibits and artifacts are handled properly and respectfully. The museum had welcomed more than five million visitors through its doors in the time since it opened.
 
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Very sad to see this 9/11 memorial closing.

I remember going there about one year after it opened.
This museum featured compelling stories and videos of what had happened on "AMERICA's WORST DAY".
The day America was attacked on our own soil.

It wasn't just the WTC, but also The Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Shanksville, Pa that was believed to be headed to the White House.

So many families and friends lost their family members and close friends that day.
And so many Brave Heroes are STILL Dying from 9/11 related cancer.

Our World certainly changed after that.

But it might NOT be just the Covid issues that has taken it's toll on keeping this Memorial functioning.
These days people are back out there traveling throughout the country, and even the world.
So money issues may have been a problem much earlier.

I remember reading this topic posted on this site way back in August, 2012.
It's title was: "Something You Should Read".

Please note one of the things that was mentioned in that article;
Quote:
Glenn Corbett, a professor of fire science at John Jay College, active in a range of 9/11 issues, put's it this way:
Lot's of people and a lot of companies have made a lot of money off of 9/11.
End of Quote.

It was also mentioned in that article, which actually came out in August of "2011", at that time that there is a $2.2 BILLION Dollar cost overrun at the World Trade Center site.

Here is that article that was posted on this site in August, "2012"

www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/something-you-should-read.17994/
 
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9/11 Tribute Museum Closing NYC Location After More Than 15 Years, Going Fully Online


After months of being on life support, the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York City is set to close.

The Lower Manhattan museum, which opened its doors in 2006, will be closing for good on Wednesday, Aug. 17, a decision brought on after a sharp drop in visitors since the COVID-19 pandemic. The small and intimate museum had been located on Greenwich Street, not far from the National September 11 Memorial Museum that sits next to the memorial pools at the site where the former Twin Towers stood.

"Financial hardships including lost revenue caused by the pandemic prevents us from generating sufficient funding to continue to operate the physical museum," said Jennifer Adams, the co-founder and CEO of the museum, which was started by FDNY widows part of the non-profit organization known as the September 11th Families' Association.

The museum's reliance on international tourism has made it unsustainable during the pandemic. Annual admissions dropped substantially to 26,000 last year, compared to 150,000 in 2019.

Gordon Huie, a survivor who was in Tower 2 and whose brother was a victim, spoke to one of the last groups to walk through the museum. Huie, a doctor, helped the wounded.

"On that conference room table. No sheet or mattress. That’s when I started sewing people back together again," he told the group.

He called the museum "part of our history, this is a part of America. It just hurts so much we’re going to short change the world when we close this museum down."


The group said they had wanted a place to tell the stories of those they lost in the Sept. 11 attacks. Now, the museum's online presence will allow the group to keep providing educational resources and support for the 9/11 community. They will still be able to offer interactive engagement, including video stories of those impacted.

Much of the museum's collection will move up to the New York State Museum in Albany, with the group coordinating with donors to ensure that the exhibits and artifacts are handled properly and respectfully. The museum had welcomed more than five million visitors through its doors in the time since it opened.
Just a shame. Not right.
 
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Maybe OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT needs to step in and make sure this closing DOES NOT HAPPEN.

It represents Our Nations History, and it DIDN'T Matter Who you were, or what you looked like.
We saw that when the Memorial Service took place at Yankee Stadium, shortly after 9/11.

The World Trade Center Memorial is a part of Our National History, just as the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" or "The Smithsonian Institute".

There were so many heroes that day, from our police officers, firefighters, ems, our 911 dispatchers who gave reports of people trapped on the various floors and coordinated all of our emergency services, as well as citizens who helped others who could not help themselves.
Our U.S. Military was called into action to protect the rest of us throughout the country.

Somehow, this WTC Memorial needs to remain so that We Will NEVER FORGET and future generations will be able to see for themselves what so many innocent people went through, just by being there on that fateful day.
A Day in History that I know, many of you will NEVER FORGET
 
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With all the money this Government is throwing around for useless things, you would think they would fund it to continue operation. I guess the illegals coming here are more important. Who is the govt. working for now? It seems like they have an America last agenda.
 
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any reason why there was no mention of Lee Ielpi in this article....he was the founder of this museum.
 
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Lee actually started the museum that was next to Ten House Firehouse. I don't know if he was too involved with the national museum. Still this should be a permanent memorial that should be federally funded so every generation knows what happened on 9/11 and how vulnerable we had become to an attack that we pretty much created by our self. Who wants to learn how to fly? Just don't teach me how to land!
 
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