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Architecture review: At 9/11 Memorial Museum, a relentless literalism

Many New Yorkers, still trying to make sense of the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center, have had a single question as a museum was being built at ground zero: Too soon?

Now that the 9/11 Memorial Museum, as it's officially called, has opened to the public, they and others may find themselves asking something else: Too much? More.

The 9/11 memorial through a sister's eyes

On the morning before the museum opened to the public, Mary Lou Buss took the ferry from Staten Island to lower Manhattan to visit the place her sister died.

Tissues, counselors help ease pain at 9/11 museum

There are prominent videos of the twin towers collapsing, photos of people falling from them, portraits of nearly 3,000 victims and voicemail messages from people in hijacked planes.

Parsing the outrage over the 9/11 museum shop

When it comes to tragedy, there’s a thin line between solemn commemoration and crass commercialization. Actually, it’s often not very thin, and it’s crossed all the time.

The New York Post recently reported that relatives of 9/11 victims are outraged that the National September 11 Memorial Museum will be home to a gift shop that peddles T-shirts, mugs, and rescue dog vests, as well as books and other educational material relating to the deadly terrorist attack. More.

In bad taste: 9/11 museum opening Danny Meyer restaurant

The 9/11 museum’s appetite for crass commercialism will be satisfied with an 80-seat restaurant inside the memorial’s allegedly solemn grounds.

The Pavilion Cafe, run by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Events, is scheduled to open this summer inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum — a move overlooked when museum officials took media and VIPs through the grounds last week. More.

A Somber Visit to 9/11 Museum for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

Standing inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum amid photos of thousands of victims, Mayor Bill de Blasio typed F-O-N-T-A-N-A on a screen, bringing up images of Dave Fontana, the Brooklyn firefighter he met months before terrorists toppled the Twin Towers.

9/11 Museum Opens to a Somber Crowd

Alone or in groups they emerged from the dark exhibition halls and the even darker subject matter of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, reaching for words like “overwhelming,” “shock” and “gut-wrenching.”

On Wednesday, nearly a week after it was opened to family members of victims and rescue workers, the museum opened to the general public. More.

And What if the Sept 11 Museum Had to Be Evacuated?

What if a bomb went off or a fire broke out in the National September 11 Memorial Museum, 70 feet below ground?