Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - Clark County is hosting the “Remembering 1 October” exhibit from Monday, Sept. 30 through Thursday, Oct. 10 in the Rotunda Gallery, located on the first floor of the Clark County Government Center in downtown Las Vegas at 500 S. Grand Central Parkway. Building hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
The exhibit features a selection of items from the Clark County Museum’s 22,000-piece 1 October collection including banners, letters, cowboy hats, stuffed animals and mementos left at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and other locations as offerings of grief and support following the attack at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. 1, 2017.
The centerpiece of the exhibit is a model of the “Forever One Memorial.” This concept, created by JCJ Architecture, was selected to serve as the community’s permanent memorial by Clark County’s 1 October Memorial Committee and approved by the County Commission following a three-year effort to gather ideas and input from the public.
The “Remembering 1 October” exhibit also will include The Art of Healing mural and Angels of Love displays created in remembrance of the first anniversary of 1 October, and a sculpture featuring two glass butterflies with purple and orange wings entitled El Camino Illuminado, “The Lighted Path,” to represent those who have succumbed to their injuries in the years after 2017. The Art of Healing Mural was created by local artists and students at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts high school. It contains nine large panels with teddy bear images representing the 58 lives lost the night of the tragedy on Oct. 1, 2017, and condolence messages the public was invited to write the first year it was on display. The Angels of Love exhibit was created by a California-based nonprofit as a gift to Clark County and the community. It contains stained-glass angels in remembrance of those who perished and the hundreds who were injured, as well as memorabilia dedicated to first responders who assisted victims.
The Clark County Museum launched a significant effort to collect, catalogue and preserve the thousands of items left at the Welcome sign and other locations to help tell the story of how our community reacted to the mass shooting. More than 60 volunteers spent 18 months cataloging artifacts. Photographs of the items in the museum’s Remembering 1 October Collection are on its website at https://tinyurl.com/ybvvwsj6. Appointments can be made to view items that are in storage. The museum also is collecting stories about items left at memorial sites. An online form to share information is on its website at https://tinyurl.com/yybjtes2.