The statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt that has stood in front of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for 80 years will be removed in response to ongoing protests against racial injustice.
The statue - which features Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and a black man on either side of him - has stood at the front entrance of the museum since 1940.
The museum's president, Ellen V. Futter, said in an interview, "the time has come to move it."
"Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd," Futter said. "We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism."