The Colston statue continues to attract debate and opinion from its current resting place in the M Shed. Those peering into its resting place had plenty to say, with extremely polarizing views filling the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colston is carefully led on his back, waiting in state for visitors to shuffle past. A dignity not afforded the victims of his slave trading. Almost like barriers obscuring an emergency incident, blank walls feature projections, opinions as well as some of the signs placed around the statue the day Bristol decided it was time to take action against the Colston stain on the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u00a38,000 contract to display the statue, including its barrier and wall decoration went to Beaufort Bespoke Ltd. The exhibition entrance remains under the cautious eye of a security guard positioned discreetly near the doorway.
Whilst the museum is working on decolonising its collection, a painting of influential Bristol people from history hanging on the M Shed wall in another area of the museum features Edward Colston. He is listed as a ‘merchant and philanthropist’. The M Shed Twitter account promises that the painting’s label had been re-written but not yet published.
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Hello. We totally agree and we’ve rewritten this label (to update some of the other people too) but the graphic hasn’t been produced yet. It should be with us very soon.<\/p>\u2014 M Shed (@mshedbristol) June 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>