Director named to head 9/11 museum

A director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was named Tuesday to head the museum that will commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.

Alice M. Greenwald will oversee the creation of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum, an underground gallery of exhibits planned next to the memorial that marks the footprint of the destroyed twin towers. Groundbreaking is scheduled for next month; the museum and memorial are slated to open in 2009.

Greenwald has been associate director for museum programs at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., since 2001, overseeing several departments and heading a National Education Institute. She has served as a consultant to the museum since 1986 and was a member of the original design team for its permanent exhibitions. She will begin her new job in mid-April.