Interviews, Presentations & Programs
Voices 22nd Anniversary Always Remember Gala
Category: Keynote
Context: Delivered on November 9, 2023
Remarks at the VOICES Center for Resilience Always Remember Gala, on accepting the 2023 Legacy Award.
Remembering 9/11: Alice Greenwald of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on CBS News 2 on September 11, 2022
Greenwald, president of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, spoke with CBS2's Dick Brennan about bringing her grandson to the museum.
The 9/11 Museum: Curating memories of terror and tragedy
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on 60 Minutes April 21, 2013
Lesley Stahl gets the first in-depth look at the National September 11 Memorial Museum currently under construction seven stories below ground.
America Remembers: The Voices of September 11
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on NBC Nightly News September 11, 2021
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, in a conversation with Lester Holt, Alice Greenwald describes how the use of first-person testimony in the 9/11 Museum’s exhibitions conveys the human experience of this historical event.
Recalibrate Reality: Alice Greenwald and Scott Rechler
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on March 10, 2021, on 92Y.org from Season 1 of the series, “Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York with Scott Rechler,” produced in collaboration with the Regional Plan Association and the 92nd Street Y
Scott Rechler, chair of the Regional Plan Association and CEO of RXR Realty, talks with Alice Greenwald about how she and the team at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum navigated the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and how we look to past crises to provide a model for the future and give us hope that there will be brighter days ahead.
AJS 2020 Plenary: Embracing Ambiguity: How History Matters
Category: Programs
Context: Association for Jewish Studies Plenary, December 20, 2020
A Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch, III (Smithsonian Institution) and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum), moderated by Alice Greenwald (National September 11 Memorial & Museum).
In this plenary session from the 52nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, three individuals instrumental in the creation of major museums – each commemorating, documenting, and conveying traumatic history where there are conflicting notions of what the story is (or should be) – discuss the challenges and opportunities of building institutions of public history that tackle contested topics in fraught contemporary contexts.
What Remains — The 9/11 Museum from Wired
Category: Interviews
Context: Wired.com Interview with Alice Greenwald on May 16, 2014
Creating a memorial from the ruins of 2,983 lives: that's the difficult task faced by the creators of the 9/11 Museum. On the eve of its public opening, Wired.com speaks with museum director Alice Greenwald and media designer Jake Barton about how to commemorate a tragic experience without recreating it.
9/11 Museum tells the story of tragic day
Category: Interviews
Context: CBS Evening News feature that aired on May 14, 2014, the day before the official dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
At the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan, a single day in the life of America is frozen in time. As Jeff Glor finds, from the moment visitors enter, little is held back.
A Museum Within a Museum
Category: Presentations
Context: Posted online July 25, 2013, this behind-the-scenes look at the 9/11 Memorial 10 months before it opened features museum director Alice Greenwald talking about how this museum is so different from other museums.
Passion on All Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
Category: Presentations
Context: March 15, 2007, the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program
Alice Greenwald, director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, discusses the herculean task of managing and overseeing the articulation and implementation of a vision for the planned 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and talks about the importance of exhibiting controversy while recording history accurately and delicately.
Audio Interviews
Indiana University
(recorded 2019; re-broadcast 2020)
NPR interview on the opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum (recorded May 2014)
NPR interview on the 1st 9/11 anniversary after 9/11 Memorial Museum opened (recorded September 2014)