“September 11: Bearing Witness to History"
Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center will be one of a select handful of museums across the country to present the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit September 11: Bearing Witness to History. This is an important, powerful opportunity to reflect upon a day that changed all of our lives and to remember the victims, survivors and rescuers of this tragic event. It features images, objects and stories related to the tragic events at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, site of the flight 93 Crash site. Artifacts include:
--A tattered U.S. flag from the World Trade Center, found at the Fresh Kills Landfill.
--A section of structural column from the upper floors of Two World Trade Center
--A squeegee handle used by Jan Demczur to escape along with five others from an elevator in One World Trade Center.
--A scorched block of limestone from the façade of the Pentagon.
-- FBI Jacket, badge, and rosary beads of Father Joseph McCaffrey, the official chaplain for the Pittsburgh Division of the FBI, who consoled special agents working at the Flight 93 crash site and greeted families of the victims.
Visitors can add their observations and reflections to the national record while at the exhibit; written accounts will become part of the Smithsonian's Archives.
Location: Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (Pittsburgh's historical Strip District)
Hours/Dates: The exhibit will be on display in Pittsburgh from September 11, 2004-January 2, 2005. Open daily from 10 AM - 5 PM. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's Day
Admission: $6 for adults, $4.50 for senior citizens and students with valid ID, $3 for children ages 6-18, and free for children age 6 and under. History Center members are admitted free.
** For the duration of September 11: Bearing Witness to History, the History Center is providing free admission to first response emergency personnel including police, firefighters, EMS and 911 operators. Free admission is provided to individuals who present identification indicating their status as emergency personnel to the Admissions Desk at the History Center.
“9.11 Remembered"
The New York Police Department played a very significant role in the response to the events that occurred on September 11, 2001. The New York City Police Museum opened a permanent exhibit on September 3, 2003 that chronicles the role; exclusive on-camera interviews, striking photographs and numerous Ground Zero artifacts tells the story. This exhibit pays tribute to the members of the department who perished on that day and recognizes the strength and resiliency of the NYPD as it continues forward protecting the city of New York.
The museum will also present Through Their Eyes- NYPD Photographs, an exclusive collection of images which were captured on September 11 by members of the NYPD. This display includes some of the most dramatic and poignant photos taken by the NYPD's Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) and Photo Unit from their perspective at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill.
Location: New York City Police Museum, 100 Old Slip, NY (between Water St. and South St., 4 blocks south of South St. Seaport) (both museum & gift shop are wheelchair-accessible)
Hours: Open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5 for adults, $3 for seniors, and $2 for children ages 6-18; museum members & children under 6 are free; NYPD members n/c
“Heroes of September 11”
The National Liberty Museum is known as America's Home for Heroes. It honors
1000 men, women and young people of all walks of life who dared to step beyond
their comfort zones to help make the world a better place… from world leaders to the firefighters and police who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. An exhibit, “Heroes of September 11,” pays
tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on America.
Location: The National Liberty Museum is located at 321 Chestnut Street in
the heart of historic Philadelphia, near Independence Hall.
Hours: Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission: $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 for students with ID; children are free when accompanied by an adult.
"Radical Hospitality"
This exhibit will be on display from February 10 - October 17, 2004 at the New York Historical Society chronicling the extraordinary spirit, outpouring of support and contributions made by volunteers at churches and other help centers in New York City in the wake of September 11. Radical Hospitality will draw upon artifacts, photographs, banners and posters, children's art and video to reveal the story of how ordinary people pitched in to provide comfort, support and amenities to the rescue and recovery workers at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.
Approximately fifty objects bear witness to the incredible outpouring of support for New York's rescue and recovery workers in the months following September 11, from a canvas banner hung on the fence at St. Paul's and signed by recovery workers, volunteers, and people visiting ground zero... to the tags of bomb-sniffing dogs Ajax and Laika... to a large hand-painted sign reading "Welcome to Point Thank You". Many of these items are now part of the Society's permanent holdings through the History Responds collecting initiative, which ensures their preservation for study by future generations.
Location: The New York Historical Society,
170 Central Park West
(Public Parking Garages are located at 203 West 77th Street, 207 76th Street or 201 West 75th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam)
Hours: Mondays: Closed;
Tuesdays - Sundays: 10 AM - 6 PM
Admission:
Members: Free,
Adults: $10,
Seniors, Students and Teachers: $5,
Children 12 and under accompanied by an adult are free
For more information: Please call (212) 873-3400
VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS “Images of FDNY… Brotherhood: In Strength and Sorrow” Sixty-nine photographers documented the New York firehouses that lost members in the September 11th tragedy, the lives of those who work within those firehouses, and the outpourings of grief and support from the communities within which they are situated. A collection of photographs are on display via an online exhibit through the Museum of the City of New York.
To view the exhibit, please click here.
"After September 11: Images from Ground Zero" The Museum of the City of New York, along with the U.S. State Department, is presenting an online exhibit of famed photographer, Joel Meyerowitz's work. This once traveling exhibit features large format photographs, documenting the painful work of rescue, recovery, demolition and excavation of the World Trade Center site while capturing the resilience and spirit of Americans and of freedom-loving people everywhere. Each photograph shows great detail and color reproduction through Meyerowitz's use of a large format camera. The 9/11 photographic archive includes more than 5,000 photographs which will eventually become part of a permanant collections at the Museum of the City of New York. An accompanying catalogue will be published in 2004 as part of the new opening of the Museum of the City of New York at the Tweed Courthouse adjacent to New York City Hall, just six blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Click here to view the U.S State Department's virtual exhibition.
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