In New York, the equestrian statue of the 26th President of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt, which stood for more than 80 years in the square near the American Museum of Natural History, was dismantled.
The monument depicted the US president on horseback and an Indian and an African-American walking next to him. Since the president dominates the latter in the sculptural composition, the black public of America needed to remove him.
The decision to dismantle it was made in the summer of 2020 against the background of protests after the death of African-American George Floyd. The head of the museum, Ellen Futter, then admitted that in modern society, the compositional solution of the monument is perceived as a symbol of racism and colonialism.
Note that the dismantling of the statue was carried out late at night, and the work cost approximately two million dollars. Nothing is reported about the future fate of the monument.
