Municipalities do not know enough about the monuments and statues in their public spaces, and their historical awareness is insufficient. As a result, they respond on a merely ad hoc basis to increasingly vehement discussions. At national level too, registration of public cultural heritage is inadequate. In its Unstable Pedestals [Wankele sokkels] report on controversial monuments, the Academy offers advice as to how administrators, policymakers, and members of the public can deal with such monuments more effectively.