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9/11 Museum

Worth a stopFinancial District, Manhattan

Design of the museum is spectacular; sets the right atmosphere and gives you the scale of the towers. Information presentation doesn’t do justice to what happened.

What it is

Underground museum at Ground Zero with exhibits on the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks, victim portraits, and recovered artifacts.

Pair it with

Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.

  1. 1China Institute0.1 mi · $15

    Cool gallery of interesting Chinese art.

  2. 29/11 Memorial0.3 mi · Free

    Really powerful

  3. 3Museum of Jewish Heritage0.3 mi · $18

    Holocaust museum, large and extensive.

  4. 4Irish Hunger Memorial0.5 mi · Free

Also on the block, if you have time

Charging Bull (0.2 mi, free), Federal Hall National Memorial (0.2 mi, free), Skyscraper Museum (0.3 mi, free), National Museum of American Indian (0.3 mi, free), Wesley Chapel Museum at John Street Methodist Church (0.3 mi, free).

Skip Fraunces Tavern Museum (0.3 mi), even if you’re passing: “Tourist trap above a tavern.”