WTC Visitor Center. Photo by Alan Klein

If you are making a special trip to the World Trade Center site or happen to find yourself in Lower Manhattan, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center is open every day and offers a very personal connection to the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

The Tribute Center was created by the September 11th Families' Association to share the personal stories of victims, survivors, rescue and recovery workers, volunteers and residents of Lower Manhattan. With the authentic experiences of those most affected by the events of 9/11, the exhibits convey the courage, loss, heroism and grief of those who responded to the tragedy. These individual testimonials put a human face on the overwhelming events that shocked the city, the nation and the world. Throughout the Center, interactive exhibits, personal greeters and an environment for reflection involve visitors in appreciating the scope and impact of the disaster as well as the enormous outpouring of compassion in response to that loss.

Personalized walking tours of the World Trade Center site are also given up to 4 times a day by one of 200 volunteers from the WTC community of survivors, family members, rescue workers, civilian volunteers, police, firefighters and Lower Manhattan residents and workers. During the tours, Tribute guides layer their personal connection to the story of the attacks of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001 to help visitors to connect physical locations to specific events.

Model of the former World
Trade Center buildings.
Photo by Alan Klein

The Tribute WTC Visitor Center is located on the southern perimeter of the World Trade Center site at 120 Liberty Street, between Greenwich and Church Streets, next to the firehouse Engine 10 Ladder 10. Please see map below.

Go to www.tributenyc.org for more information.