A New Jersey State Museum exhibit commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks will feature oral histories, local photographs and industrial artifacts from ground zero.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno announced details of the “Remembering 9/11” exhibit during a news conference Thursday at the Statehouse, saying the exhibit is intended to be uplifting, not depressing. It will open Sept. 7 and run through September 2012.
Steel from the World Trade Center and personal artifacts from New Jersey residents who perished will be on display alongside a slideshow of memorials and a space to leave personal reflections.
About 700 New Jerseyans died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania.
Also on Thursday, New Jersey unveiled a 9/11 curriculum for students from kindergarten through high school. The classroom lessons focus on the attacks, the history of terrorism and the heroics of regular people.
