This article is an invitation to think together about what was long considered irreconcilable: democracy and monuments. It shows that “monuments in democracies” are not to be equated with “democratic monuments.” In today’s democracies, we must deal with monuments that we have inherited and that are often fundamentally opposed to our current democratic values. But what kind of monuments do democratic societies need? Through references both to history and to developments in monument creation during the last 40 years, we can see how much the genre has been revitalized and, yes, democratized.