Back to the Badlands? Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, Purged From Steps of Natural History Museum and Sent to North Dakota, Has Been Mothballed — With ‘No Plans’ To Display It
Despite a promise to display the historic but embattled statue in an ‘appropriately contextualized’ setting at the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library North Dakota, the statue is now locked away in ‘a safe and secure location.’
It sounds straight out of the “Night at the Museum”— a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, packed up and shipped off for political reasons, only to disappear into storage no one wants to name. Yet that’s exactly what happened to the famous statue of America’s 26th president, which now resides in “a safe and secure location in North Dakota,” according to its custodians.
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