COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (AP) — Norwegian police said two climates Activists tried in vain to nail Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece The Scream at a museum in Oslo on Friday.
Police said the three were “under custody” after being alerted by the Norwegian National Museum. According to the Norwegian news agency NTB, a third party filmed the two men as they tried to attach them to the painting.
The museum said the room containing the glass-protected paintings was “emptied to the public and closed” and plans to reopen as soon as possible.
Police said there was glue residue on the glass mount.
Video of the incident showed museum security holding two activists, one shouting, “Scream people are dying.” Another shouted, “I scream when lawmakers ignore science,” while someone shielded “The Scream.”
An environmental activist from the Norwegian organization ‘Stopp oljeletinga’ (Norwegian for Stopping Oil Exploration) was behind the stunt, saying he ‘wanted to pressure parliamentarians to stop oil exploration’. . Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas.
This was the latest episode in which climate activists targeted a famous painting in a European museum.
Astrid Lem, spokesman for the Norwegian group, told the Associated Press: “There have been many similar actions across Europe. They have achieved something that no other action has achieved: so much coverage and coverage.”
Two Belgian Activists Target Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ In October he was sentenced to two months in prison in a Dutch museum. The painting was undamaged and was put back on the wall the next day.
Earlier this month, climate change protesters threw mashed potatoes A similar protest took place in London at a painting by Claude Monet in a German museum, where protesters threw soup See “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery. In both cases the painting was undamaged.
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