Interviews, Presentations & Programs
Making a Memorial Museum
Category: Podcast
Context: Released on October 29, 2024
Alice Greenwald joins Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner, C&G Partners, and host of the podcast series “Making the Museum,” to discuss the range of considerations that go into creating an institution that is both a museum and a memorial.
World Humanitarian Day 2024
Category: Podcast
Context: Released on August 19, 2024
Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar speaks with Moderna chairman and Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder Noubar Afeyan, 2019 Aurora Prize Laureate Mirza Dinnayi, and Memory Matters LLC principal and Aurora Board member Alice M. Greenwald about the vital importance of recognizing exceptional humanitarians worldwide in an episode titled, “Putting the ‘human’ back in humanitarianism.”
2024 Aurora Prize Ceremony
Category: Speech
Context: Delivered on May 9, 2024, in Los Angeles
As part of the 2024 Aurora Prize Ceremony, Aurora Board member Alice Greenwald reflects on the importance of using historical memory to inform global responses during turbulent times.
Voices 22nd Anniversary Always Remember Gala
Category: Keynote
Context: Delivered on November 9, 2023
Remarks at the VOICES Center for Resilience Always Remember Gala, on accepting the 2023 Legacy Award.
Remembering 9/11: Alice Greenwald of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on CBS News 2 on September 11, 2022
Greenwald, president of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, spoke with CBS2's Dick Brennan about bringing her grandson to the museum.
The 9/11 Museum: Curating memories of terror and tragedy
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on 60 Minutes April 21, 2013
Lesley Stahl gets the first in-depth look at the National September 11 Memorial Museum currently under construction seven stories below ground.
America Remembers: The Voices of September 11
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on NBC Nightly News September 11, 2021
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, in a conversation with Lester Holt, Alice Greenwald describes how the use of first-person testimony in the 9/11 Museum’s exhibitions conveys the human experience of this historical event.
Recalibrate Reality: Alice Greenwald and Scott Rechler
Category: Interviews
Context: Aired on March 10, 2021, on 92Y.org from Season 1 of the series, “Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York with Scott Rechler,” produced in collaboration with the Regional Plan Association and the 92nd Street Y
Scott Rechler, chair of the Regional Plan Association and CEO of RXR Realty, talks with Alice Greenwald about how she and the team at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum navigated the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and how we look to past crises to provide a model for the future and give us hope that there will be brighter days ahead.
AJS 2020 Plenary: Embracing Ambiguity: How History Matters
Category: Programs
Context: Association for Jewish Studies Plenary, December 20, 2020
A Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch, III (Smithsonian Institution) and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum), moderated by Alice Greenwald (National September 11 Memorial & Museum).
In this plenary session from the 52nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, three individuals instrumental in the creation of major museums – each commemorating, documenting, and conveying traumatic history where there are conflicting notions of what the story is (or should be) – discuss the challenges and opportunities of building institutions of public history that tackle contested topics in fraught contemporary contexts.
What Remains — The 9/11 Museum from Wired
Category: Interviews
Context: Wired.com Interview with Alice Greenwald on May 16, 2014
Creating a memorial from the ruins of 2,983 lives: that's the difficult task faced by the creators of the 9/11 Museum. On the eve of its public opening, Wired.com speaks with museum director Alice Greenwald and media designer Jake Barton about how to commemorate a tragic experience without recreating it.
9/11 Museum tells the story of tragic day
Category: Interviews
Context: CBS Evening News feature that aired on May 14, 2014, the day before the official dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
At the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan, a single day in the life of America is frozen in time. As Jeff Glor finds, from the moment visitors enter, little is held back.
A Museum Within a Museum
Category: Presentations
Context: Posted online July 25, 2013, this behind-the-scenes look at the 9/11 Memorial 10 months before it opened features museum director Alice Greenwald talking about how this museum is so different from other museums.
Passion on All Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
Category: Presentations
Context: March 15, 2007, the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program
Alice Greenwald, director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, discusses the herculean task of managing and overseeing the articulation and implementation of a vision for the planned 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and talks about the importance of exhibiting controversy while recording history accurately and delicately.
Audio Interviews
Indiana University
(recorded 2019; re-broadcast 2020)
NPR interview on the opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum (recorded May 2014)
NPR interview on the 1st 9/11 anniversary after 9/11 Memorial Museum opened (recorded September 2014)