By LAURA VOZZELLA | The Washington Post | Published: December 22, 2020 RICHMOND, Va. The old general is flat on his back now, in the museum equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys. Robert E. Lee s 700-pound likeness left the grandeur of the U.S. Capitol and landed here Tuesday morning as workers rolled the statue off a truck and left it supine, on a wooden pallet, in storage space at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. The life-size bronze will rise again, but not in a way that glorifies the Confederate hero. It seems destined instead for an exhibit that looks critically at Lee s place in the national and Southern psyche from the lost cause mythology that rewarded the leader of an armed rebellion with a perch in Congress s National Statuary Hall to the recent racial reckoning that triggered the statue s retreat to Richmond.
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Virginia To Replace Century-Old Robert E. Lee Statue With Civil Rights Icon
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Virginia s statue of Robert E. Lee will be replaced by one of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns
Each state contributed two statues to the collection in 1909, and Virginia s government hopes this change will help Virginia move past its history
The statue of Lee will find a permanent home in a Virginia cultural museum
Virginia’s government has decided to remove a statue of confederate general Robert E. Lee from the capitol. It will be replaced by a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns and move to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Virginia Museum of History & Culture adds Lee Statue to artifact collection
Virginia Museum of History & Culture adds Lee Statue to artifact collection By Adrianna Hargrove | December 22, 2020 at 1:42 PM EST - Updated December 22 at 6:14 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The Virginia Museum of History and Culture says the Lee Statue will be added to its artifact collection.
Today, the museum received the statue after it was removed from the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 21.
Earlier this year, Virginiaâs Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol voted unanimously to remove and replace the statue, and also unanimously voted that it should be added to the artifact collection of the VMHC.
A Statue of Civil Rights Activist Barbara Rose Johns May Soon Replace One of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol Building
The new statue would commemorate a key figure in the Brown vs. Board of Ed Supreme Court decision.
December 21, 2020
Virginia s statue of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol. Photo: Jack Mayer, Office of Governor Northam.
Early this morning, workers removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Erected in 1909, the sculpture was one of two representing Virginia in the building’s National Statuary Hall, where every state gets two statues. Lee’s figure was located in the Crypt, where 13 statues represent the original 13 colonies. It will now be moved to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in the state capital of Richmond.