This current exhibition, Memento Mori: 9/11 Twenty-Five Years Later, is intended to create a mediative space for reflection, remembrance, and education, inviting visitors to contemplate the enduring impact of September 11, 2001. The photographic works, along with eight others, are now part of the museum’s permanent collection.

“On March 11, 2002, six months after the World Trade Center attacks, two beams of light rose into the night sky from a site just north of Ground Zero in honor of those lost on September 11th and in celebration of the spirit of all the New Yorkers who worked to rebuild and renew the City. The public art installation, Tribute in Light, has now become a permanent addition to the WTC Memorial and is illuminated every September 11th, projecting light four miles into the sky. Non-profit cultural institutions, Creative Time and the Municipal Art Society, provided production support with assistance from Battery Park City Authority. To learn more about Tribute in Light, please visit www.tributeinlight.com.”

Accompanying materials include books, magazines, and ephemera, as well as documentary photographs and digital prints of works of art responding to the event, and images from MNEMONIC: A 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, organized for the Atrium Gallery, LaGuardia Community College, in 2002. Media components include Lotus Cusp: a PowerPoint presentation created and produced by Professor Adele Shtern, including a Healing Art Portfolio of Graphically Designed 9.11 Stories by Professor Shtern & her students at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York (BMCC/CUNY), 2001–2011, and One Hundred Two Minutes That Changed America, produced by Siskel/ Jacobs Productions for the History Channel.

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, and Queens College, CUNY. Educational programs and initiatives are supported by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. Additional support for the care of the museum’s collection is generously provided by the Pine Tree Foundation.