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Panels for the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be stored in San Leandro

SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Mike Smith, left, hands a quilt panel to John Cunningham, right, Executive Director of the National AIDS Memorial at a storage site for the panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, center, gets a hug from Leslie Ewing at a storage site for the quilt panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Michael Bongiorni, left, hands a quilt panel to Celve Jones, second from right, founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Quilt assistant Terry Martin looks over a container of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founders Mike Smith, second from left, and Cleve Jones, center, hug at a storage site for the quilt panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Roddy Williams, second from left, director of operations for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, hands panels to volunteers at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: The first panel created for the AIDS Memorial Quilt is photographed at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founders Gert McMullin, left, and Cleve Jones, second from left, greet John Cunningham, center, Executive Director of the National AIDS Memorial and Rafael Mandelman at a storage site for the quilt panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Gert McMullin, left, works with director of operations Roddy Williams, right, to unload containers of panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, left, gets a hug from Doris Owyang at a storage site for the quilt panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Workers unload containers of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Stacks of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels are photographed at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Volunteers work to unpack panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Roddy Williams, left, director of operations for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Doris Owyang, right, move containers of panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Roddy Williams, left, director of operations for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, works with volunteers to unpack panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, right, gets a hug and a kiss from Michael Bongiorni, left, at a storage site for the quilt panels on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
SAN LEANDRO, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Roddy Williams, director of operations for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, moves panels at a storage site on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in San Leandro, Calif. The quilt project contains nearly 50,000 panels that are being moved from Atlanta to a new home in the Bay Area. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

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By Aric Crabb | acrabb@bayareanewsgroup.com

PUBLISHED: February 18, 2020 at 2:49 p.m. | UPDATED: February 19, 2020 at 4:09 a.m.

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Close to 50,000 panels that make up the AIDS Memorial Quilt are moving from Atlanta to the Bay Area. About 54 tons worth. The project began thirty-three years ago and now memorializes over 105,000 people who have died of AIDS.

Panels for the quilt have been stored in Atlanta since 2001, but are now being moved to their new home in San Leandro, and will be cared for by the National AIDS Memorial.

Portions of the quilt will be on display in Robin Williams Meadows, April 3-5 as part of the 150th birthday celebration of Golden Gate Park.

Organizers say the 1,920 panels on display will be the largest ever of the quilt in San Francisco.