Part of the Collateral Damage display in Friends House, London. Photo: Elinor Smallman.

Some of the 5,000 white poppies made as part of the Collateral Damage will go on display at The Peace Museum

Collateral Damage poppies at Peace Museum

Some of the 5,000 white poppies made as part of the Collateral Damage will go on display at The Peace Museum

by Rebecca Hardy 28th February 2020

Two panels of the thousands of handmade poppies that made up the Collateral Damage project have been donated to The Peace Museum. Linda Murgatroyd, from the Quaker Arts Network, told the Friend: ‘The remainder have been distributed for use at protests against the arms trade or war, and in a variety of commemorations around the country.’

Many Friends contributed to the display of more than 5,000 handcrafted white poppies which were exhibited at Friends House, London, in the autumn of 2018.

Charlotte Hall, curator at The Peace Museum, told the Friend: ‘We were happy to accept the banners, having been one of the host locations that people could send poppies to. We are planning on displaying one [panel] in June to coincide with the launch of our Protest! In our Time: Part Two exhibition which is all about contemporary collecting. I think we will display it at our pop-up site in the Kirkgate Shopping Centre. The white poppy is an important symbol for peace and we use it as a way to educate young people.’

Linda Murgatroyd said the poppies ‘remembered some of the many victims of wars during and since world war one. Many of them had labels, remembering particular individuals or groups of victims of wars, such as conscientious objectors, victims of sexual violence, refugees, those suffering starvation or disease, and non-human victims in the animal or plant kingdoms.’


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