BOULDER, Colo. — More than two months after a gunman opened fire at the Table Mesa King Soopers in Boulder, killing 10 people, the community is coming together to take down and preserve the memorial set up outside the grocery store.

After the shooting, mourners placed hundreds of flowers, cards, signs and other remembrances on a fence near the grocery store.

The Museum of Boulder announced in March it would preserve the memorial items through their “Boulder Strong Project.” Starting June 1, the museum and the City of Boulder began removing the signs and artwork to begin the preservation project.

"It's deeply sad, and it's hard to think about the lives that were lost," said Chelsea Pennington Hahn, the curator of collections at Museum of Boulder. "Seeing everything that people have left, is really powerful. Boulder is such a creative city, and so to see all the ways that's been expressed on the fence is really lovely."

The removal part of the project will continue until June 4. Volunteers looking to help can sign up here.