World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition Collection

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) administered the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in 2003. Through this competition, the jury selected a design for a single memorial that remembers and honors all loss of life on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. The LMDC received over 5,000 Memorial submissions meeting the entry criteria, representing an enormous global outpouring of ideas from 63 nations and more than 13,000 registrants.

The digitization of this collection was made possible by the Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives Initiative at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Explore the competition entries below.