A rug woven by orphaned survivors of the Armenian Genocide will be on display during a Sunday fundraiser in Los Angeles (USA) to establish a local museum for historical relics.

“This was given to people, Americans, who felt compassionate about the genocide that had occurred in western Armenia and went off to provide relief and aid, and these orphans gave [the rugs] as gifts,” said Andy Torosyan, chairman of the Lark Musical Society in Glendale, and the rug’s current owner, reported The Los Angeles Times.

The society is a small, private music school that is looking to convert an building into an Armenian cultural museum to house, in addition to the rug, a coin from the reign of King Tigran the Great and old handwritten Bibles.

The society has already applied for permits to do some structural work for the museum, but further fundraising is needed for later phases, Torosyan said.

“The purpose of the museum is for it to be a dedicated place for the ancient cultural heritage that Armenians have,” he added.

The rug was crafted in the early- to mid-1920s by young Armenian girls living at the Ghazir Orphanage in Lebanon. While most were made and sold to sustain the orphanage, a few were dedicated to those who made significant contributions through the Near East Relief Society, which helped more than 100,000 Armenians after the genocide.

In 1925, then-US President Calvin Coolidge received a rug, which was put in storage for decades and hung on a wall at the White House Visitor Center last November after several failed attempts to hang the tapestry.