Civic Alliance Hosts Memorial Museum Programming Workshops

On September 19 and October 11, 2005, the Civic Alliance, in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, sponsored a series of workshops on preliminary programming concepts for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum dedicated to the events of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.

Over 100 people attended the workshops, which produced a good deal of thoughtful comment on the preliminary concepts for the museum's programming. Major discussion topics included the proposed "immersive" method of representing the "events of the day," the question of how much context should be provided to the events of September 11 in the museum, the use of audio/visual techniques for presenting content, and the treatment of artifacts that will be presented in the museum.

For a complete record of the workshops' discussions, see the WTC Memorial Museum Programming Workshops Summary of Proceedings, which is now available for download.