Dallas sold the city’s bronze statue of Robert E. Lee for $1.4 million in an online auction in 2019. But New Orleans’s Lee statue has been sitting in storage since it was removed from public display in 2017. Some who want the problematic statues removed say they belong in museums, where they can be shown with appropriate context. But Sheffield Hale, president of the Atlanta History Center, said museums often do not want them, for a variety of reasons. City officials in San Francisco had the statue of Columbus that stood near Coit Tower placed in storage, for now at least.

Source: International New York Times June 18, 2020 13:12 UTC