“How do you understand the situation you are in if you don’t understand where it began?” asks Alice M. Greenwald, president of the National September 11 Memorial Museum.
Because the tragic events at the heart of the museum were witnessed by billions, visitors were going to bring their own stories to the exhibits. The museum decided to embrace their versions as part of a larger whole.
But since opening in 2014, the museum increasingly attracts visitors who were born after 9/11 or who are too young to remember it. To connect with them, it is expanding the voices and stories, including the children of victims and survivors, and others whose lives were changed in the aftermath. The original oral histories still resonate, but the recent 20th anniversary prompted the museum to add new and younger perspectives to connect these visitors to their peers, too.
“We’re teaching a generation of kids [about] an American terrorist who comes here and blows up a building because he didn’t like government,” she said. “You see what happened on Jan. 6 and think, ‘My God, this didn’t go away.’ We can’t let up. We have to teach that extremism and terrorism aren’t the answer.”
Reframing the topic — such as connecting the aftermath of 9/11 to the recovery from the pandemic or the domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City in 1995 to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — is another way to keep audiences engaged.“It reminds people that the way we look at the past is always changing,” Linenthal said. “I think you say, ‘Here’s the story we’re telling, the reality it is based on, and here’s why we decided to tell it this way.
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