NEW YORK - The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down.
Last week alone, a crowd set fire to a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon, before pulling it to the ground. Gunfire broke out during a protest in Albuquerque to demand the removal of a statue of Juan de Onate, the despotic conquistador of New Mexico. And New York City Council members demanded that a statue of Thomas Jefferson be removed from City Hall.
A Roosevelt family member, who is a trustee of the museum, released a statement approving of the removal. His father was a founding member of the institution; its charter was signed in his home. Roosevelt's childhood excavations were among the museum's first artifacts. The museum was chosen by New York's state Legislature for Roosevelt's memorial in 1920.
The museum tried to add that context with an exhibition last year,"Addressing the Statue," which explored its design and installation, the inclusion of the figures walking beside Roosevelt and Roosevelt's racism. The museum also examined its own potential complicity, in particular its exhibitions on eugenics in the early 20th century.
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