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Title
The National COVID Memorial Wall
Date
2021
Medium
paint & ink
Accession number
SE1_AS_S129
Acquisition method
initiated by COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice
Work type
Monument
Custodian
Friends of the Wall
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
March 2021
Access
at all times
Inscription description
The National Covid / Memorial Wall / created by bereaved families / The hearts on this wall are in memory of our fellow citizens who / have died since March 2020 with Covid-19 on their death / certificates. Every heart represents a person who was loved. / The wall belongs to us all, and we all have to share it. If you want to add an inscription to the wall in memory of someone whose life was lost to covid-19, please abide by the original principles: / Please only take one heart for each person / Find a freshly painted heart and make your dedication / Hearts should be similar in size and no larger than an adult hand. / The Friends of the Wall are a group of bereaved volunteers who / maintain the memorial by removing graffiti, repeated inscriptions and re-painting fading hearts. All efforts are being made to maintain original dedications. / We can be contacted on Twitter at @CovidMemorialUK. Please get / in touch if you would like to volunteer. Donations for the upkeep / of this memorial can be made at nationalcovidmemorialwall.org
