Climate activists have recently been targeting artworks in major museums to try and get points across through publicity-stunts. The latest of these involved Johanees Vermeer’s masterpiece, “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”
A video on Twitter shows one man pouring something red on another protester who tried to glue his head to the glass-protected painting. The second man stuck his hand to the panel.
One of the activists was wearing T-short with the words “Just Stop Oil.” He shouted: “How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless being apparently destroyed before your eyes? Do you feel outrage? Good. That is the feeling when you see the planet being destroyed before our very eyes.”
Visitors to the museum seemed displeased, with one shouting: “Shame on you!”
Police in The Hague said they arrested three people for “public violence against property.”
Earlier this month, protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and protesters threw soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in the National Gallery in London. The paintings were not damaged in both instances.
In a comment, the museum said: “Art is defenseless, and the Maurithshuis firmly rejects attempts to damage it for any purpose whatsoever.”
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