Posted by Autosuggestion on 11/6/2020, 3:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Historic England"
Great posts. I worry that since the Colston toppling rightly focused people on the history of the subjects of our statues that moving them to museums is a comfortable and tidy solution that will lead to the potential power of their message being out of sight, out of mind, and fading quickly.
I think a chance for them to become 'owned' as in situ educational assets is the opposite of the glorification for which they were originally created and is sweetly ironic. The learnings of history should be alive and in your face not just for the dusty corner of a museum, for academia to dissect or to be warped by the media.
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