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Museums Celebrate America's Freedoms:
Joining Communities in a Day of
Remembrance
About Celebrate America's Freedoms: A Day of Remembrance
In recent months, many museums have expressed a desire to unite with their communities in remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001. In response, the American Association of Museums (AAM) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have developed Celebrate America's Freedoms: A Day of Remembrance. This initiative underscores museums' roles as stewards of the nation's stories and special places where communities can reaffirm and examine our:
- freedom to assemble
- freedom to create
- freedom to worship
- freedom to inquire
- freedom to express ideas
- freedom from fear
Call to Action: Working together, museums can make a powerful statement about the richness of the American experience in communities across the United States.
Who: Museums, from art to zoo, in every community in the country.
What: On and around Sept. 11, 2002, museums can offer programs, exhibits, and activities that support their communities and serve as forums for remembrance and understanding.
Why: Museums are centers of community life with programs and services for families, lifelong learners, schools, and others. Their responses to the Sept. 11 attacks were as diverse as the communities they serve and underscored the central role these institutions play in people's lives. Now museums seek to unite with their communities once again, this time to mark the anniversary of the attacks and celebrate the freedom's that sustain the nation's strength.
What will IMLS and AAM do?
- provide Observing September 11: A Toolkit
- support a national communications campaign.
- encourage museums to mark the day in a way that best suits their missions, resources, and the needs of their communities.
Let us know how your museum will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary. Send an e-mail to: celebratefreedom@aam-us.org.
Take Part in the Initiative:
- Download the following documents:
- Click Here to download the Celebrate America's Freedoms logo
Logo design by Patricia Hord Graphik Design.
- Click Here to adopt the Celebrate America's Freedoms resolution.
This is a Word document. You may download this document, adapt it to suit your institution, and save it to your hard drive.
- E-mail us at: celebratefreedom@aam-us.org. Send us your questions and/or let us know how your museum will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary.
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