New York 9/11 museum will close weeks shy of 21st anniversary
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(Worthy News) – The 9/11 museum in New York City will close its doors Wednesday, just weeks shy of the 21st anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, due to financial struggles stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior administrators told the New York Post that revenue loss from its pandemic closings in 2020 and 2021 had forced the shutdown.
“Two-thirds of our income revenue annually comes from our earned income from admissions,” said museum co-founder Jennifer Adams-Webb. “We were completely closed for six months in 2020. We had been averaging 300,000 visitors a year … and last year we had a total of 26,000 visitors, so it completely annihilated our earned income.” [ Source: Just the News (Read More…) ]
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