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.Sign up for NBC New York newsletters.
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.
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