Edvard Munch’s masterpiece ‘The Scream’ saved from sticky local weather activist duo from Norwegian group “Stopp oljeletinga”

Police mentioned they have been alerted by the Nationwide Museum of Norway and had three folks underneath their “management.” A 3rd particular person filmed the pair that attempted to affix to the portray, Norwegian information company NTB mentioned.

The museum mentioned that the room the place the glass-protected portray is exhibited “was emptied of the general public and closed,” and can reopen as quickly as potential. The remainder of museum remained open.

Police mentioned there was glue residue on the glass mount.

Environmental activists from the Norwegian group “Stopp oljeletinga” — Norwegian for Cease Oil Exploration — have been behind the informed stunt, saying they “wished to strain lawmakers into stopping oil exploration.” Norway is a significant producer of offshore oil and gasoline.

It was the most recent episode wherein local weather activists have focused well-known work in European museums.

Two Belgian activists who focused Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman with a Pearl Earring” in a Dutch museum in October have been sentenced to 2 months in jail. The portray was not broken and was returned to its wall a day later.

Earlier this month, local weather protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet portray in a German museum and the same protest occurred in London, the place protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” on the Nationwide Gallery. In each these circumstances, the work additionally weren’t broken.