This was the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums
This was the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums
Norwegian police said two men tried in vain to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at the Oslo Museum on Friday and no damage was done to a painting of what appears to be a screaming wife-like figure.
Police said they had been alerted by the National Museum of Norway and had three people under their “control”.
Norwegian news agency NTB said a third person filmed the pair trying to paste the painting.
The museum said the room where the glass-preserved painting is displayed was “vacated from the public and closed,” and will reopen as soon as possible.
The rest of the museum remained open.
Police said there was a residue of glue on the glass mount.
Environmental activists from the Norwegian organization “Stop Alljeltinga” – Norwegian for Stop Oil Exploration – were behind the reported stunt, saying they wanted to “pressure lawmakers to stop oil exploration.”
Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas.
This was the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums.
two Belgian activists who Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Were in a Dutch museum in October two months in prison,
The painting was not damaged and was returned to its wall a day later.
Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting at a German museum, and a similar protest took place in London, where protesters threw soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery.
In both those cases, even the paintings were not damaged.