Sharp announced Tuesday that it’s sponsoring a video wall...

Sharp announced Tuesday that it’s sponsoring a video wall at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum preview site at 20 Vesey St. in Manhattan. The wall, made up of nine Sharp PN-V601 60-inch professional LCD monitors, will be on view to the public, showing footage detailing progress of the museum and memorial until Sept. 11, 2011, when it will be moved for permanent installation at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels and Sharp Electronics CEO Kozo Takahashi unveiled the display at the preview site, a 2,000-square-foot storefront said to have hosted more than 1.3 million visitors since opening in summer 2009. Takahashi said the 9/11 attacks were an “international event” and Japan lost 25 citizens in the Trade Center bombings. Sharp is donating $1 million to the museum and will provide additional audio and video equipment including projectors, a “next-gen” video wall and capacitive-touch touchscreens, said Mike Marusic, associate vice president of Sharp’s Imaging and Information Company. Using the touchscreens, visitors will be able to search for victims of the 9/11 and 1993 World Trade Center terrorist attacks and locate their names at the memorial, Bloomberg said. According to Marusic, Sharp is the exclusive provider of video displays for the museum now, but a timetable for the sponsorship isn’t set.