David Brashear’s father was in the Pentagon on 9/11. His Muscarelle exhibition traces 25 years of rebuilding at the World Trade Center.
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary has opened a 25th-anniversary September 11 exhibition led by a director with family ties to that morning — his father inside the Pentagon and his brother about to board a Brooklyn subway when the first plane hit.
The exhibit, “Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal,” opened June 26 at the Williamsburg, Virginia, museum. It traces the World Trade Center site from the urban renewal plans of the 1960s through the 2001 attacks and the decades-long rebuilding that followed.
The show gathers more than 70 works and artifacts, including architectural drawings, models and photographs.
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Photo Credit: Balthazar Korab, Architect Minoru Yamasaki with model of the World Trade Center, c . 1971, Library of Congress