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TWO PEOPLE HAVE tried – and failed – to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece The Scream at an Oslo museum, Norwegian police said.
No harm was reported to the painting of a waif-like figure appearing to scream.
Police said officers were called to the National Museum of Norway on Friday and had three people under “control”.
A third person filmed the pair trying to affix to the painting, Norwegian news agency NTB said.
The room where the glass-protected painting is exhibited was “emptied of the public and closed” and will reopen as soon as possible, the museum said. The rest of the venue remained open.
Police said there was glue residue on the glass mount.
A video of the incident showed museum guards holding two activists with one shouting “I scream for people dying” and another one shouts “I scream when lawmakers ignore science” while a person was shielding the painting from the protesters.
Environmental activists from the Norwegian organisation Stopp oljeletinga — Norwegian for Stop Oil Exploration — were behind the stunt, saying they “wanted to pressure lawmakers into stopping oil exploration”.
Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas.
“We are campaigning against Scream because it is perhaps Norway’s most famous painting,” activist spokeswoman Astrid Rem told the Associated Press.
“There have been lots of similar actions around Europe. They have managed something that no other action has managed: achieve an extremely large amount of coverage and press.”
It is the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums.
Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring in a Dutch museum in October were sentenced to two months in prison.
The painting was not damaged and returned to its wall a day later.
Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and a similar protest happened in London, where protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.
In both those cases, the paintings also were not damaged.
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I’d die
Scorpionvenom for a guy afraid of snakes and dying at the thought of it, you’ve a very misleading username
Scorpion might have something to do with November ha
I’d cook him and eat him. Ate snake in Thailand. Absolutely delicious.
Ultimate game of Snakes & Ladders
First a spider crawled out on front of me this morning… Now I have this to look forward to??!!
Well, in good news, the snake would make short order of the spider…
I don’t think people should be allowed to keep snakes in Ireland.. They’re not very friendly…they escape, can breed and then start turning up in bathrooms and homes..like in Australia. I don’t like snakes…I don’t like them at all, even the non poisonous ones.
How can you say they’re not very friendly?
They’re amazingly friendly, it’s just the language barrier and their intellectual thoughtful nature that makes them seem so aloof.
Five feet? About the same size as my shnake.
G’lad.
And made of wood?
On my Facebook feed I saw a gigantic yellow snake eating a puppy alive. Now I’ve have a fear not only of snakes but also of scrolling through Facebook. I never want to see that again.
“Where the snake is making a recovery…”
What about the man??
He’ll need some serious counselling after that lol
Where’s Saint Patrick when you need him.
That’s a just a myth! He’s as big a fraud as jebidiah Springfield!
Not exactly… he ‘drove out’ pagan druids who used to have tattoos of serpents on their forearms, apparently.
Basically, he killed people for not sharing his beliefs.
and Jebediah was a perfectly cromulent embiggenator
You’d be checking your underpants after that!
Throwing it away!
I found one years ago on Dollymount beach. I got a fright, i picked it up with a stick put it into a bag and brought it to the zoo, RTE were there at the time covering a vet show. I was as nervous as hell driving over I was afraid it would get out of the bag.
Homeowner did mention that the past owner was a snake!
We read a story concerning a huge spider on the Journal.ie some weeks ago and now this snake . I suppose wit
Must have been hiding out for for paddys day.
Last Canvasser found in Dublin Home !
If it wasn’t a sea snake then it wasn’t poisonous…it wasn’t venomous?
Nice of the previous owners to let them know there was a snake loose in the attic
As regards snakes not being friendly I opened my door one morning in Thailand and there was a beauty sunning itself, but ultimately in my way. I tried reasoning with it, like “Shoo” , ” go away” “I’ll get the manager” but it didn’t oblige. Because I had no idea whether it was dangerous or not I had to sit it out until it decided to slither down a rainspout ! Very uncommunicative indeed ! Inconvenienced me , late for breakfast !!
We need bears to tackle these snakes
Petrol? Check
Matches? Check
We read a story concerning a huge spider on the Journal.ie some weeks ago and now this snake . I suppose with more people bringing them from other Countrys the odd one poping up here and there will happen . As long as they don’t pose to a person’s life its not a problem
Apologies for half a post above This phone has a mind of its own
And not even a week after St.Patricks day…..
Might not be your phone@Alan. Journal app behaving queer since yesterday…
@the girl.
Thank you for that info
Us shirt lifters don’t mind. Just don’t call me a ceiling lifter.
Can you eat it in a stew !!!
Michael
Yes fairly tasty
For sure Stephen. The shock alone would kill me.
I have Rat Snakes in the country all around me. Harmless and help keep the rat population down.
I killed a 5ft Python in Thailand with my bare hands once……when I say bare hands I mean I gripped the steering wheel and drove over that sucker…..still gives me the creeps when I think about it.
#snakesonthebrain
Jaysus!!
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