WTC Museum Has An Identity Problem

The World Trade Center Museum is under construction. But “the museum’s identity problem was built in from the start when officials quietly commanded that an exhibition space be created under the memorial plaza designed by Michael Arad. A memorial is not enough, the reasoning went; the event must be interpreted. Though two wars and thousands of deaths have been unleashed in 9/11’s name, the 115,000-square-foot museum focuses on ourselves and our losses.”