9/11 Tribute Museum closes weeks before 21st anniversary of attacks in New York City

NYC’s 9/11 Tribute Museum is closing attributable to monetary woes exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic (Photos: Getty Photos/AP)

Certainly one of New York Metropolis’s 9/11 museums is completely closing in the present day, simply weeks earlier than the twenty first anniversary of the worst terrorist assaults on US soil.

The 9/11 Tribute Museum, situated a couple of blocks south of Floor Zero, is shuttering after a months-long battle to get well after the coronavirus pandemic.

The Tribute Museum was recognized for what it referred to as ‘person-to-person historical past’. It supplied guided excursions with ‘relations, survivors, first responders, and individuals who reside in Decrease Manhattan’, in line with its web site.

The opposite bigger museum, the Nationwide 9/11 Memorial and Museum situated at Floor Zero, will stay open.

A wall on the 9/11 Tribute Museum commemorates every recognized sufferer that died within the tragedy (Image: AP)

The coronavirus pandemic hit the museum significantly laborious. The museum depends closely on attendance for funding, getting most of its income from ticket gross sales.

‘Monetary hardship together with misplaced income brought on by the pandemic prevents us from producing ample funding to proceed to function the bodily museum,’ mentioned Jennifer Adams, the museum’s co-founder and CEO.

Annual admissions had been solely 26,000 final yr, in comparison with 150,000 in 2019.

Over 5million folks have gone to the museum because it opened in 2006.

The museum plans to keep up a web based presence, the place the tales advised by the displays may be preserved.

However many are upset that a bodily area the place survivors may inform their tales can be no extra.

‘It’s an enormous loss for these individuals who referred to as this their second house, the place they might come and share their story,’ Adams advised the New York Put up.

The bodily collections of artifacts can be moved to the New York State Museum in Albany.

The Museum’s management is asking native and state politicians to step in to save lots of the gathering.

A circulating change.org petition implores Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams to become involved.

‘NY politicians have promised to assist the 9/11 Tribute Museum with its pandemic-related monetary woes. No assist has been forthcoming,’ the petitioners mentioned in an replace two weeks in the past.

It at the moment has about 33,300 signatures.

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