memorials

Orange County Regional History Center staff is collecting the last items from the makeshift Pulse memorial in downtown Orlando Monday. The more than 2,000 items that had been placed on the lawn of the Doctor Phillips Center for Performing the Arts will now become part of a permanent museum exhibit.

A police escort will lead the relocation Tuesday of 49 white wooden crosses from the Orlando Regional Medical Center to Orange County History Center.The crosses are among the items the history center is collecting from Pulse memorials throughout the city.

Thousands of items in makeshift memorials in downtown Orlando for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting will find a permanent home in a museum. Orange County Regional History Center staff have begun collecting items for a future memorial exhibit.