{"id":1612107,"date":"2022-08-18T07:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612107"},"modified":"2022-08-18T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:02:16","slug":"lower-manhattans-9-11-tribute-museum-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lower-manhattans-9-11-tribute-museum-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Manhattan&#8217;s 9\/11 Tribute Museum Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flower-manhattans-9-11-tribute-museum-closes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-09\/GettyImages-1339505.jpg?h=1cd874c6&#038;itok=DsynSeRp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The 9\/11 museum in New York City will close its doors Wednesday, just weeks shy of the 21st anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, due to financial struggles stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Senior administrators told the New York Post that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/17\/nycs-9-11-tribute-museum-to-close-its-a-huge-loss\/\">revenue loss<\/a> from its pandemic closings in 2020 and 2021 had forced the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo-thirds of our income revenue annually comes from our earned income from admissions,\u201d said museum co-founder Jennifer Adams-Webb. \u201cWe were completely closed for six months in 2020. We had been averaging 300,000 visitors a year \u2026 and last year we had a total of 26,000 visitors, so it completely annihilated our earned income.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way we\u2019re going to be able to dig out of this at this rate,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe need the state or the city to step in with other partners to be able to say, \u2018We value you. We want to save this organization,\u2019 but at this point, we can\u2019t continue to dig into a hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2001 terrorist attacks, organized by Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda, saw two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center, causing both towers to collapse and inflicting thousands of casualties. The U.S. subsequently invaded Afghanistan to dislodge the extremist camps in the country and the Taliban regime harboring the Jihadis.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years later, the U.S. withdrew and the Taliban retook control of the country. Intelligence reports have since indicated that Al-Qaeda has resumed <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaeda-leader-afghanistan\">operations<\/a> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The galleries in the Manhattan museum, which have received more than 5 million guests since they opened in 2006, will transfer most of their collections to the New York State Museum in Albany, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaeda-leader-afghanistan\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adams-Webb lamented the museum&#8217;s closing, but said it had made a significant contribution to the victims and the community over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of what we\u2019ve been able to accomplish, but&#8230; the place for the 9\/11 community to come is not here. It\u2019s a huge loss for those people who called this their second home, where they could come and share their story&#8230; There\u2019s no museum that has the dual mission we have to support the community and also educate visitors that come here,&#8221; she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9\/11 museum in New York City will close its doors Wednesday, just weeks shy of the 21st anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, due to financial struggles stemming from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}