September 11 Exhibit Hall Opens at NYC Fire Museum New York -- A "September 11 Exhibit Hall" honoring firefighters who lost their lives in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has recently opened at the New York City Fire Museum. The museum houses one of the nation’s most important collections of fire related art and artifacts from the Eighteenth Century to the present. An extension of the renovated 1904 Fire House that is the Museum's home, the new hall was created by turning an adjoining courtyard into an atrium. Beneath the glass skylight, a Memorial Wall is etched with names and photographs of the 343 firefighters who died in the attack. An exhibit includes photographs of the disaster that have never before been displayed, along with an interactive audio-visual exhibition.

The New York City Fire Museum is located at 278 Spring Street in Manhattan’s SoHo district. It is open to the public from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Saturday and 10 to 4 on Sundays.

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