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M Shed tickets block-booked in attempt to prevent people seeing Colston statue
People unhappy that the Colston statue has not been put back on its plinth are block-booking tickets to the M Shed in an attempt to try to prevent people from visiting the new display at the museum.
The campaign is being led by Save Our Statues, a group who “run confident, high-impact political, educational and legal actions to save our country’s illustrious cultural heritage”.
Bristol24/7 understands that a virtual 3D version of the displayed Colston statue is going to be online soon.
https://twitter.com/_SaveOurStatues/status/1401141838019452929
UWE professor, Dr Shawn Sobers, a member of the We Are Bristol History Commission, tweeted: “See how the Reactionaries are trying to stop anyone seeing the Colston display at @mshedbristol.
“It’s too much for them that in a democratic society, people can choose to visit it for themselves and see the wider history, rather than the narrow narrative from the Colston Cult.”
Katie Donington, a historian at London’s South Bank University, tweeted: “So let me get this straight – the same people who took 2 the streets 2 demand we preserve & protect statues so that the public can engage with history are now block booking tickets so that people can’t visit their local museum 2 view a statue & engage with history. I just can’t…”
Bristol City Council has been approached for a comment.
Main photo: Martin Booth
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