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Paul Standish, Emma Williams, Introduction, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 55, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 425–429, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12594
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The statue of Edward Colston was pulled down on 7 June 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol.
One year on, the statue now forms part of a new display at M Shed to start a city-wide conversation about its future. The statue is on display alongside a selection of placards from the protest as well as a timeline of key events leading up to 7 June 2020.
As part of your visit, you will have the chance to complete a survey. We want to hear your thoughts on what happened that day and what you think should happen next.
This is an opportunity to have your say on how we move forward together.
This statement currently appears on the website of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.1 In 1895, the statue of Edward Colston (1636–1721) was erected on a plinth of Portland stone on Colston Avenue in Bristol's city centre. In 2020—and in the course of its journey to M Shed, a 1950s transit shed on Bristol's historic wharf, transformed into a museum—it ceased to be a monument and became an exhibit. The statue is not simply on display as part of the museum's collection but presented with the intention of starting ‘a city-wide conversation’. M Shed sets out to challenge perceptions of what it has meant to live in Bristol ‘through the recollections of the people who have shaped the city’, an invitation that judiciously and generously leaves open who those people are.
