Spaulding Rehab. Chosen as Permanent Display Site for 'Mending Boston' Project

Photo: Paula Hereau, Maureen Banks, Clara Wainwright, Eve Perkins, David Storto, Colleen Moran, Guests (2), Oz Mondejar. (Credit: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital)

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is now a permanent home to an artistic quilt designed to commemorate the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.

“Mending Boston” is a community art project in the form of an impressionistic quilt, designed to commemorate the Boston Marathon bombings; the quilt maps the areas most affected during the attack.

Spaulding, which opened around the time of the attacks, served as a hub of recovery for several victims injured from the attacks.

Members of the public recently joined clinicians, community leaders, local artists and Spaulding staff to celebrate the project and the announcement that Spaulding was named the site for the permanent display of the quilt, hospital officials said in a recent statement.

More than 250 contributors helped design the quilt, which has been displayed at several locations throughout the city, including MIT, the Watertown Police Department, Boston University, the Neighborhood House Charter School and other locations.

The quilt can be seen on the first floor of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital at 300 First Ave. in Charlestown.