Visit the 9/11 museum today and you’ll find displays emphasizing the towers’ majesty and architectural ingenuity. The museum’s “historical exhibition” recreates the morning of 9/11, down to the minute — with just cursory mentions of its complicated legacy. huffpost.com/entry/9-11-mus…
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Islamophobia and racism, the chronic health problems of 9/11 first responders — there are few moments of confronting uncomfortable truths. It results in an overly simplistic and uncritical narrative, promoting an excessive sense of patriotism. 
As the 20th anniversary approaches, the museum is facing an existential crisis and financial woes due to its reliance on tourists.
Several scholars who have studied the museum told HuffPost the museum is full of crucial problems, like its lack of context. huffp.st/bXyZqtE
Several scholars who have studied the museum told HuffPost the museum is full of crucial problems, like its lack of context. huffp.st/bXyZqtE
“This really intense focus on the minutes and the hours of 9/11 ends up kind of giving no bigger context, and so, avoids all of the difficult questions and problems and issues that 9/11 has raised,” said Amy Sodaro, associate professor of sociology at the BMCC.
The sections of the museum that focus on the political context of the attacks frame terrorism as a simplistic “us vs. them” issue and emphasize Americans’ “unity” and “solidarity” in the immediate aftermath of #September11. huffp.st/bXyZqtE
The museum also does little to differentiate between the violent extremists who perpetrated the attacks and Islam itself. Consequently, it creates a harmful conflation of terrorism with Muslim identity.
HuffPost culture reporter @marinafang talked to several scholars about the 9/11 museum’s problematic legacy and what its leaders could do differently — though it might be a challenge. #911memorial
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