A pale stone wall with small brass plaques and warm lamps, snow falling outside a tall window

2Floor · Perpetual Plaques

Perpetual Plaques

A plaque is not an obituary. Living people have them too: a short record of who you are and what you care about, kept where the people you recognise can find it.

On the wall

Plaques.

M-000001 · Perpetual Plaque · Example

Lin Qiuyun

A maths teacher for thirty-one years, and a mender of radios.

What a plaque holds

As much as you choose.

Public: A name or a pen name, one line, the things you made, linked to your exhibits. The number of lamps lit.
Recognised: Letters, stories, a voice note you recorded yourself, where a keepsake is and who to ask for it. The right to light a lamp and leave a word.
Sealed: What should wait for a date, or for your keepers.

A plaque for someone else needs their consent, or, for someone who has passed away, the agreement of their close family. Every application is reviewed by a librarian.

Brass plaques and small lamps on a stone wall — Hall of Plaques · lamps lit by recognised visitors

Apply for a plaque

Lamps are not likes. Only people your warden recognises can light one, so each lamp means someone who knew you came by.