The AIDS quilt — all 50,000 panels — will return to the Bay Area, under a new agreement that transfers stewardship of the mammoth AIDS memorial to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco.
Additionally, the Library of Congress will preserve the quilt’s vast archival collections in Washington, D.C.
Details of the arrangement were announced during a news conference in Washington Wednesday morning.
The quilt will be moved to a warehouse near the Oakland International Airport from its current location in Atlanta, John Cunningham, executive director of the AIDS grove, told the Bay Area Reporter in an exclusive interview Monday.
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