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A top curator at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has been tapped to take the helm of a Ground Zero museum that will tell the story of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Alice Greenwald was named yesterday as the first director of the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum, where she will oversee the design of exhibits, including massive artifacts such as pieces of the towers and battered rescue vehicles.
"It is an extraordinary challenge and responsibility to build a museum at the very place where people died next to the memorial which will honor them," said Gretchen Dykstra, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation president.
Greenwald, who will earn $300,000 and was hired after a national search, said the museum "has to be almost a sacred space, in which everyone . . . has their own 9/11 story, and everyone does."
In the short term, Greenwald said the museum will focus on "memorialization" of the attacks, but she said that could change as things evolve.
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