Two square reflecting pools, set within a forest of swamp white oak trees, mark where the Twin Towers stood at the World Trade Center site. The memorial and its museum, also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, remember the 2,977 people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the six killed in the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993.
The memorial's design, by Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects with the landscape architects Peter Walker and Partners, won the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. Davis Brody Bond and Snøhetta are also among the project's architects. Heavy construction began in August 2006.
The memorial was dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, September 11, 2011, and opened to the public the next day. The museum was dedicated on May 15, 2014, with remarks from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama, and opened six days later. A non-profit institution operates both.
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