The American Museum of Natural History in New York announced that it will remove the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has loomed over the front steps on Central Park West since 1940
Futter said the decision was based on the statue itself and not on Roosevelt himself, a conservationist whose father was a founding member of the museum and who served as New York's governor before becoming the 26th president.
Roosevelt’s conservation legacy is still strongly represented throughout the museum, whose two-story Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall features four exhibition areas tracing Roosevelt’s life and a bronze sculpture of a seated Roosevelt as he looked during a famous 1903 camping trip to Yosemite with naturalist John Muir.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the decision this evening. “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” said the mayor in a written statement. “The City supports the Museum's request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.
The removal of the Roosevelt statue highlights that iconic historical figures are often flawed and complicated. “Roosevelt is also known as the ‘Conservation President’ during his presidency, when more than 230 million acres of land were set aside as national parks, national forests, and other protected sites,” says a page on the museum’s website that. “But Roosevelt also held some disturbing views, including that the ‘English-speaking race’ was superior to others. Roosevelt—like the country he led—has a complicated and sometimes troubling history.
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