The Family Room opened in April 2002 in space donated by Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of 1 Liberty Plaza, a 54-story skyscraper across Church Street from the trade center site.
replaced this summer by a new private gathering space in the National September 11 Memorial Museum pavilion
“We don’t want to have anything in our collection that a donor doesn’t want us to have.”
I feel it’s time for people to see our pain, our anguish, our love and our strength; to experience all that we felt and feel about our loved ones, in its purest and most uninhibited form.