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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-5ZPqUMgfM 20 Photos That\'ll Turn Your View of History Upside Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0oHNyu77X4& The Story of the Hope Diamond Which Ruined Its Owners\' Lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4RzWdBerY& 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: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/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/