Ground Zero Museum Workshop

Tours include: an introductory narration and historical overview, given by a personal tour-guide; a 12-minute film on a big screen; an interactive walk-through of artifacts; and a self-guided audio experience consisting of 100 stories behind each image and artifact. Audio tours are available in French, Italian, English, and Spanish.

Located in Manhattan’s historic Meat-Packing District, the Ground Zero Museum Workshop is only 6 minutes by subway from the actual site of the former World Trade Center. The photographs on exhibit will take viewers on an emotional roller-coaster, eliciting feelings ranging from deep sadness to a feeling of unity with other visitors and Americans, who are all connected in some human, transcendent way to the victims of the 9-11 tragedy. The Ground Zero Musuem Workshop is known as the ‘Biggest Little Museum in New York’. Intimate photos of artifacts and notes left at Ground Zero bring visitors to grips with the vastness of the tragedy, which united the world in grieving for its victims and spawned a new era in foreign relations, changing the way America would be perceived by the international community.

Images of firefighters and artifacts are sensitively and reverently arranged, and their poignancy lies in their ability to provoke thought about their connection to their owners, presumably all victims of the 9-11 tragedy. A shattered makeup case, for example, evokes sympathy for a woman who held this item in her final hours, and a photograph of a desk calendar lying in the rubble brings up questions about its owner’s schedule on that fateful day. The idea behind this museum is that none of the refuse from Ground Zero should be discarded as “trash”. All of it has meaning and value in that it was in some way connected to the victims. A trip to New York City would not be complete without pausing in remembrance for the victims of 9-11, and this museum offers an opportunity to do just that. As Gary Marlon Suson tactfully said of his museum, “… if you are looking to remember the fallen in a beautiful way, you've come to the right place…if you can't connect, you can't heal, and so I'm hoping that these images will serve that purpose."