The International Freedom Center is envisioned as an integral part of the living memorial to September 11 at the World Trade Center site. It shares the mission of the World Trade Center Memorial to ensure that "the lives remembered, the deeds recognized, and the spirit reawakened be eternal beacons, which reaffirm respect for life, strengthen our resolve to preserve freedom, and inspire an end to hatred, ignorance, and intolerance."
To accomplish this mission, the Center will celebrate freedom as a constantly-evolving world movement in which America has played a leading role. Visitors from around the globe will come to understand that the story of freedom is a narrative of hope, and that September 11 is an essential element of this story, powerfully illustrating that new challenges to freedom will always arise, that freedom's work remains unfinished, that freedom's work remains unfinished, and that there is a place for all of us in this work.
The Center will carry on its work through three major components:
Museum exhibits will tell personal stories and explore crucial themes in the history of freedom, detailing the contributions of countless individual men, women and children throughout the ages, including the heroes of September 11.
Educational and cultural programs related to the exhibits will stimulate a global conversation to advance freedom's cause.
A service and civic engagement network will offer visitors opportunities who have been inspired by the IFC's exhibits the chance to act on behalf of freedom within their own communities and around the world.
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