The quilt was originally unveiled in London’s Hyde Park in 1994.
It is made up of a patchwpork of handmade tributes to those who died after the HIV virus hit the UK in the early 1980s, when there was little known about it and effective treatment was not available.
Many of those infected were shunned and isolated so the quilt – “a vital social document” – is said to be a celebration of lives that were “never quite allowed to reach fruition”, according to the UK Aids Memorial Quilt website.
The quilt is part of the world’s largest community art project and was started in the US in 1985 by activist Cleve Jones, to remember his friends, family and loved ones that died after contracting HIV, which develops into Aids.