Tributes left to those killed or injured in the Manchester Arena attack will be preserved in an archive thanks to a National Lottery grant. The Manchester Together archive, located at Manchester Art Gallery , is made up of more than 10,000 items left in several locations across the city including St Ann’s Square following the attack on May 22, 2017.
Notes, poems, cards, t-shirts, soft toys with personal messages, Manchester bee drawings and balloons are among some of the items making up the archive. A £99,700 grant has been awarded from the National Lottery which will pay for two staff members to document all of the items and turn them into searchable online archive. However, all of the tributes will still also remain at the gallery.
The project partners, in collaboration with the Manchester Resilience Hub, will also explore the possible use of the archive for therapy to help families with the grieving process. The archive has already been visited by a number of those who lost loved ones in the Arena attack, said the city council.
