New York City has finally gotten approval to relocate a controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the steps of the American Museum of Natural History.

The city's Public Design Commission unanimously approved a plan to relocate the bronze statue, which depicts Roosevelt atop a horse, and flanked by figures of a Native American and a Black man on foot. Critics have long called it racist and colonialist, and last summer, amid the mass protests over George Floyd's murder, museum officials said the statue would come down.

But then came the bureaucracy: the statue is on city land, and that required public hearings on its removal. Those only started this month. Now, city officials say the statue will be sent to a museum dedicated to Roosevelt, but didn't say which one, or when it will come down.