Edward Colston statue placed in quiet corner of Bristol museum

‘I’m Jamaican. He may have traded one of my ancestors,’ says Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, at the Colston exhibit in M Shed. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

It is undoubtedly the most well-known artefact in Bristol’s waterside museum, but rather than being given a prominent position it has been tucked away in a modest case at the back of a first-floor gallery.

Finding the right setting in M Shed for the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, which was pulled from a plinth in the city and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, has been a delicate task.