DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, nearly a dozen decommissioned monuments, many of them confederate, now sit inside gallery walls far from the public parks and streets they once stood.

"We're often told that American history needs to be a certain way or should be a certain way. That we need to talk about this, but not talk about that, that we need to feel one way and not another way, so we don't think that's the case. We wanted to put our faith in artists to show us new things about history," MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson said.

Some pieces remain untouched, others remain splattered with paint just as they were after being pulled down during protests, a reminder that Americans' debate over monuments is far from settled.

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