What If You Damaged Something in a Museum by Accident?

Have you ever visited a museum and noticed that there doesn't seem to be very much separating the public from the precious art or artifacts on display? Often, it's nothing more than a velvet rope, and sometimes even less. What would happen if you tripped and stumbled right into a shelf of priceless Etruscan urns? Well, they would obviously break, but what happens to you after picking the shards of three-thousand-year-old ceramic out of your hair? In 2010, a young woman was attending a class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City when she tripped and accidentally punched a hole in a piece of priceless artwork. The painting in question was Picasso’s “The Actor,” and was valued at 130 million dollars right until the unnamed student opened a six-inch gash in the canvas... Other videos you might like: 10 Great Mysteries Hidden in Famous Paintings    • 10 Great Mysteries Hidden in Famous Paintings   20 Photos That'll Turn Your View of History Upside Down    • Video   The Story of the Hope Diamond Which Ruined Its Owners' Lives    • The Story of the Hope Diamond Which Ruined...   TIMESTAMPS: Damaged Picasso’s painting 1:04 What happened to that woman? 1:57 How three irreplaceable 17th-century vases were destroyed 2:28 Destructive selfie-takers 3:38 120 thousand dollars in a crushing machine 5:14 Is it modern art or a pile of garbage? 🤔 5:38 Why don’t museums take stronger steps to protect the items? 7:39 A word to the wise 8:33 #museums #artwork #brightside SUMMARY: The tear may have been big, but was near the edge and far from the focus of the painting. After three months of restoration, it was as good as new. The museum didn’t even charge her the cost of restoring the painting. The absolute worst thing that happens is that the perpetrators find themselves banned from the museum, but even that’s extremely rare. A few years before "The Actor" lost its boxing match with the young woman, a man in Cambridge tripped over his shoelaces and completely destroyed three irreplaceable 17th-century vases. In 2016, an elderly couple severely damaged one of the exhibits at Pennsylvania’s National Watch and Clock Museum. As with similar incidents in other museums, the couple was let go without so much as a stern talking to. Pretty much anything you find in a museum will have an insurance policy covering it. Even museum employees usually won't lose their jobs over an honest mistake. A group of porters in England found this out when they threw away what they thought was an empty box. It was later revealed to contain a painting valued at over 120 thousand dollars. In 2014, something similar happed in Italy when a janitor mistook some modern art for a pile of literal garbage. What all those incidents had in common is that the damage was unintentional. Securing every single exhibit is so expensive that many museums don’t feel like it’s worth the cost. If you go to a museum, be careful. Great works of art can endure for centuries, and future generations will be grateful there aren't too many holes in our cultural heritage. But hey, if you do, don't feel too bad. No one is perfect after all, and we've all had moments of clumsiness over the years. Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightgram   5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/