The AIDS Memorial Quilt Moving to San Francisco Under the Stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial; Library of Congress to Preserve Quilt's Vast Archival Collections
By A Mystery Man Writer
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The NAMES Project Foundation (NPF) today announced that the National AIDS Memorial will become the new caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and NAMES Project programs. As part of the transition, the NAMES Project and the National AIDS Memorial have agreed to jointly gift care and stewardship of The Quilt’s archival collections to the prestigious American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, making this collection available through the world’s largest public library.This historic decision will return The Quilt to the San Francisco Bay Area, where 32 years ago during the height of the AIDS epidemic, a group of strangers gathered at a San Francisco storefront to remember the names and lives of their loved ones they feared history would forget – and with that seemingly simple act
History
AIDS Quilt moving to San Francisco
How the AIDS Memorial Quilt found a permanent home in San Francisco
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Press Releases, News & Events, American Folklife Center, Research Centers
The AIDS Memorial Quilt Is Heading Home to San Francisco
Living Room, San Francisco honors humble origin of AIDS Memorial
The AIDS Memorial Quilt will head home to San Francisco, 32 years
Stitching Communities & the AIDS Memorial Quilt
The AIDS Memorial Quilt Returns to San Francisco With New Purpose
AIDS Memorial Quilt at Gilead Foster City
You Can Now Explore All 48,000 Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
MARKING 35 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST PANELS WERE STITCHED, SAN
After SF Visit, AIDS Quilt Heads to South to Raise Awareness
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