RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia (BHMVA), has announced that several Confederate monuments in its collection will be loaned to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.

According to a Tuesday morning press release, the artifacts will be used in the California museum's upcoming, "MONUMENTS" exhibition, opening Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick.

The exhibit will feature other decommissioned monuments from all across the U.S. -- including Baltimore, Boston, Montgomery, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

The BHMVA will be contributing the following monuments: • Vindicatrix sculpture and granite base from the Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument (1907) • Matthew Fontaine Maury sculpture and globe, both from the

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