Memorial Exhibition Archive

Click here to view a preliminary draft design study of
the audio/visual component of the memorial exhibition.

The memorial exhibition will commemorate the lives of those who perished on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, and will provide visitors with the opportunity to learn about the men, women, and children who died. The Museum plans call for visitors to enter the exhibition along a corridor in which portrait photographs of the nearly 3,000 victims form a Wall of Faces, intended to communicate the scale of human loss.

Nearby, interactive tables will allow visitors to discover additional information about each person, including additional photographs, remembrances by family and friends, artifacts, and the location of individual names on the Memorial plaza. Rotating selections of personal artifacts will also be featured. An adjoining chamber will present profiles of individual victims in a dignified sequence through photographs, biographical information, and audio recordings.

Every victim's name will be read aloud within the memorial exhibition. These spoken names will be professionally recorded by a group of volunteer family members. If you are interested in contributing your time and voice to this group, please contact us.

In addition,the gallery threshold will include a related collage of recorded names, in which individual readers note his or her relationship to the victim as well as speaking that unique name (i.e. "my daughter, Jane Smith;" "my brother, Carlos Rodriquez"; "my fiance, Fred Jones,"). If you would like to record your loved one's name by phone as part of this feature in the memorial exhibition, we invite you to do so through our Call to Remember system.

The memorial exhibition will rely on material contributed by you. With your permission, contributions will become part of the Museum's permanent collection and will actively support our exhibition and educational efforts in perpetuity.

Please follow the links below to learn more about our collecting efforts and to find out how you and your family may contribute materials and memories to the Museum.