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Robert E Lee statue from Capitol will become a museum exhibit of changing attitudes on race

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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Removed from U S Capitol, Lee statue will become museum exhibit of changing attitudes on race

Removed from U.S. Capitol, Lee statue will be put in context at Va. museum Laura Vozzella © Timothy C. Wright for The Washington Post Dale Kostelny of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture pauses during the uncovering of a bronze statute of Robert E. Lee Tuesday morning in Richmond. RICHMOND 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.

United statesVirginia museumArthur asheAndrew talkovEdward virginius valentineBarbara johnsRoberte leeGeorge floydTimothyc wrightRalph northamGeorge washingtonDale kostelnyJean antoine houdonCongress national statuary hallThalhimers departmentGreater richmond transit authority

Removed from U S Capitol, Lee statue will be put in context at Va museum

Removed from U.S. Capitol, Lee statue will be put in context at Va. museum Laura Vozzella © Timothy C. Wright for The Washington Post Dale Kostelny of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture pauses during the uncovering of a bronze statute of Robert E. Lee Tuesday morning in Richmond. RICHMOND 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.

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Robert E Lee statue arrives at Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Robert E Lee statue arrives at Virginia Museum of History and Culture
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