"AidsQuilt" in DC 1993
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Representative John Lewis, and Representative Barbara Lee joined with other Congressional leaders, executives from the National AIDS Memorial, The NAMES Project Foundation, Library of Congress, and HIV/AIDS organizations to announce that The AIDS Memorial Quilt (“The Quilt”) is moving from Atlanta to the San Francisco Bay Area in early 2020 as its permanent home.
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 American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, making this collection available through the largest public library in the world.
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Gone but not forgotten
The quilt was first created in 1987 at the height of the AIDS pandemic. A group of strangers came up with the idea in order to remember the names and lives of their loved ones they feared history would forget.
The foundation describes the quilt as both a memorial and a storyteller. The archive has over 200,000 pieces that tell the story of those who lost their lives to the disease.
An unwavering commitment to The Quilt, were determined to see that the AIDS Memorial Quilt would stand the test of time," said Julie Rhoad, president and CEO of The NAMES Project Foundation.
"With this set of new caretakers, we are confident that the legacy of The Quilt and The NAMES Project is secure."
The quilt will be on display at the National AIDS Memorial starting in 2020.
