Ground Zero Museum Workshop Tour

The exhibit was excellent, with terrific photography and informative insights. It was all audio and visual, which is fine, but I think it would have been nice to have some written text as well. Maybe some introduction to the project. It was a good thing I kept my ticket I bought months ago, because I did not receive a reminder email, which would have been very nice to get a day or two prior to the date. Also, I looked at my ticket printout, and in the top portion with all the important information, there was no line for "Location" or "Address." So, very incorrectly, I assumed the museum was located at or around Ground Zero. I quickly found out this was not the case, and realized I had to read the first paragraph to see the correct address. It would be an easy fix if the address was on its own line, somewhere prominent at the top of the ticket.

We visited the workshop before we went to the actual 9/11 site and so glad we did. The museum is a beautiful testiment to those who were lost that day. A great insight as to what went on during the recovery and very moving. We will never forget.

After visiting ground zero this workshop brought home in even more detail about what people did after the event and what was left for them to cope n deal with...very moving. Simon and Emma London UK

At the beggining it seems like it's an expensive museum, but once you hear, see, and feel all the information in it, totally worth it.

These are photographs by a skilled photographer who had the unique privilege of being allowed to take photos of the recovery stage at ground zero. The photos themselves are well worth seeing, especially those vignettes involving people. What is less successful is the rather mundane arrangement of the room and the inclusion of random showcases housing miscellaneous objects; this is why a professional in museum set-up would have his work cut out for him. It is not enough to just mount the photos in haphazard order on the walls, play dirge-like musical chords and call it a museum. I also rather resented the many instances of self-congratulation when he describes --too often-- how he managed to overcome obstacles to " get that shot". Hopefully, when the "real" 9-11 museum opens at the memorial site, the ramshackle collection of artifacts can go where they belong and this photographs can be properly arranged to showcase the artist's work without the need to embroider on the photos themselves with a commentary often bordering on the pseudo- religious.

Highly recommend

We found the Ground Zero Museum Workshop a powerful, deeply moving, personal window into 9/11. The scale of the catastrophe and loss at the World Trade Centre was so huge that it is difficult to conceive; Gary Suson's photographs and accompanying narrative provide a series of compelling portraits of individuals and artifacts that provide powerful insights into the huge extent of the overall physical devastation, while capturing meaningful portraits and symbols of many individual losses. Thank you Gary, NYFD and NYPD for sharing the story of the so-solemn, so-dignified recovery effort that has become such an important part of healing from a public trauma of epic scale.

My daughter and I were on our first visit to NYC and this museum was recommended by a friend who had been here already. We were humbled by what we saw. It was surreal and informative. We were able to actually hold pieces of the glass and iron from the WTC. I would recommend this to anyone who is visiting NYC, you can't not go to NYC and not see this piece of history!

I was so touched with all the kindness and love of NYC and the other workers from all over. It gives me goosebumps to know that our country is so great and so quick to respond to diseasters even though it puts many lives in danger. I did feel sad about our dogs that gave their lives. Great, loving, kind people and animals!

This is a thoughtful place to view photos and some artifacts from the WTC. This is more a tribute to the fallen and those involved in finding them than anything else. Proceeds go to help the families. These photos are taken with tenderness and some will make you cry. One man's way of taking a terrible situation and using it to help the survivors. See this.