Statue of Junípero Serra | |
Italic Title: | no |
Image Upright: | 1 |
Artist: | Maurice Loriaux |
Subject: | Junípero Serra |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Condition: | in storage |
Museum: | California State Capitol Museum |
City: | Sacramento, California, U.S. |
Coordinates: | 38.5767°N -121.4912°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Owner: | California State Parks |
A statue of Junípero Serra in Capitol Park, near the California State Capitol, in Sacramento, California, was installed from 1967 until 2020.[1] [2] The statue was put in storage after demonstrators toppled it during a racial justice protest. In August 2021, legislators passed a bill to replace the statue with a monument to local Indigenous nations. The bill needs the signature of the governor to become law.[3]