THE GOAL: CREATE A MEANINGFUL TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS WITHOUT TRAUMATIZING THE VISITORS

摘要

For the museum's designers and curators, that tension led to a tangle of quandaries: How can you present a lasting memorial to an event whose impact is still unspooling through developments such as the Edward Snowden leaks and the Senate's torture report? How can you speak to 9/11's polarizing effects, such as the bungled search for WMD, without alienating some significant portion of your audience? How can you create a meaningful tribute that will resonate with every visitor: the schoolchildren who know almost nothing of what happened, survivors who ran from the buildings covered in ash, and all those-more than a billion worldwide-who experienced the attack live on TV? "Conventional narrative wouldn't cut it," says Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, which opens in May.