![]() ![]() The statue will be relocated to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library scheduled to open in 2026. In response, New York’s Public Design Commission voted to remove the statue in June. Critics and American Museum of Natural History staff have said that the statue communicates a racial hierarchy Indigenous and Black men are depicted in a subservient position to Roosevelt. The group Decolonize This Place has staged annual protests at the statue since 2016. Protestors have frequently called for the removal of the statue, and according to The Gothamist, demonstrations against the statue date back to the 1970s. The “Equestrian Statue” has been a source of contention for much of its life outside of the museum. The statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt that has stood outside New York’s American Museum of Natural History for over forty years will be moving to North Dakota. ![]()
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