People who are honoring fallen relatives and friends who died during the Sept. 11 attacks will be spending their first year without New York City's 9/11 Tribute Museum in 16 years.
The museum, which opened in 2006, was open to the public for the last time on Aug. 17 and closed its doors permanently on Aug. 31, museum co-founder Jennifer Adams said.
Joan Mastropaolo, a 12-year museum volunteer and a board director, said that with the closing of the museum, she realized she lost her venue for sharing her story. She and her husband lived in the Battery Park City area of New York, and they were displaced following the 9/11 attack for six months. Both Adams and Mastropaolo said they would miss the children visiting the museum, running from exhibit to exhibit, looking at the different artifacts, and speaking with volunteers.
“The thing that [visitors] reflected on the most was learning not only events of the day, and those stories and the memory of the people we lost, but also the rebuilding, the recovery,” she said. “And then, how many hundreds of foundations, small family foundations that grew out of Sept. 11 that were doing such great work around the world.”
“Unfortunately, it has all of the things that you don’t want to be brought into a classroom,” she said. “You know, religion, politics, war, tragedy, trauma.”
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