Smithsonian Marks 25th Anniversary of 9/11 with a Display of Rare Artifacts - WXXV News 25

Smithsonian marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a display of rare artifacts - WXXV News 25

A badly damaged flag recovered from the World Trade Center debris is displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the nation's official repository for September 11 materials, in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)By  STEVEN SLOAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Seat belts and a flight attendant call button from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93. A purse...

Smithsonian honors 9/11 with display artifacts – The Horn News

Seat belts and a flight attendant call button from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93. A purse filled with keys and a wallet recovered from the World Trade Center site. The telephone that sat on U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson’s desk when his wife, Barbara, called from a hijacked airplane. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks this week with displays of dozens of …

Steel beams, singed phones: artifacts preserve 9/11 memories

Smithsonian curators began collecting artifacts from the rubble soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Now, 25 years later, singed hats and melted phones tell the stories that keep memories alive.

Smithsonian marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a display of rare artifacts - The Boston Globe

The Smithsonian began collecting items just months after the attacks and regularly displays some of them throughout the sprawling museum.