Two environmental activists clung to a pole supporting a dinosaur skeleton on display at the Natural History Museum in Berlin on Sunday to protest against the German government’s climate policy.
It is the latest such action by climate activists at a museum, after famous works of art were attacked in several cities across Europe.
In Berlin, two women in orange vests hooked themselves to one of the metal poles that support the skeleton of a more than 60-million-year-old dinosaur. They carried a banner that read: “What if the government does not control the situation?”
“Peaceful resistance to protect our children”
One of the women, Caris Connell, said she feared “fires, water shortages, famine and war”.
“Dinosaurs became extinct because they couldn’t withstand massive climate change. It threatens us too,” the 34-year-old added.
The other activist, Solvig Schinkoethe, said that as a mother of four, she feared the consequences of climate change. “Peaceful resistance is our chosen way of protecting our children from the deadly ignorance of governments,” the 42-year-old said.
Criminal process initiated
The museum said the incident was resolved within an hour thanks to police intervention. There was property damage and criminal charges were filed, he said in a statement.
The two activists belong to the “Ultimate Generation” group that, earlier this month, spread mashed potatoes on the glass that protects Claude Monet’s “Les Meules” painting at the Barberini museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Environmental activists also hit the glass that protects Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in a museum in the Netherlands and others threw soup at the glass that protects Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in the National Gallery in London.
Source: BFM TV
