The 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York City has shut its doorways for excellent, citing COVID-similar money difficulties stemming from much less in-man or woman readers.

"Fiscal hardship which include dropped revenue brought on by the pandemic helps prevent us from building enough funding to continue to work the actual physical museum," the museum's CEO Jennifer Adams-Webb said in a press launch.

The Lower Manhattan museum – not to be bewildered with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on the Entire world Trade Center site – opened in September 2006. The compact museum made available personal guided excursions by volunteer employees produced up of many 9/11 survivors.

In accordance to its web page, the 9/11 Tribute Museum hosted a overall of extra than 5 million guests as of 2021. Of these people, 500,000 have been members of the 9/11 local community. 

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9/11 Tribute Museum shared the tales of 9/11 victims and survivors.  (FOX 5)

Museum co-founder Lee Ielpi devoted his existence to 9/11 remembrance right after his son Jonathan passed absent when responding to the terrorist attack at the World Trade Middle as an FDNY firefighter.

"It's firsthand know-how, firsthand working experience for the individuals that arrive from all about the world to realize what took place listed here," Ielpi, who also served as an FDNY firefighter, explained to FOX 5 in New York. "And all over again, who far better to inform you than those that knowledgeable, that lived it?"

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The 9/11 Tribute Museum's CEO cited COVID-linked financial problems when asserting the site's closure. (WNYW)

According to their web page, the museum remembered 9/11 "via the stories of these who lived and seasoned the tragic gatherings." 

The memorial available ordeals ranging from "guided tours by loved ones users, survivors, and 1st responders to visible narratives explained to in the course of the exhibits."

Additional than five million guided tours were being carried out throughout the museum's record. (WNYW)

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In 2019, the museum collaborated with HBO to deliver "What Took place on September 11", a child-pleasant documentary about the terrorist attack.