Kid trips in museum, destroys 350-year-old Baroque painting
You know that feeling when you go to a museum and you're like, "I really hope while I'm here today I don't accidentally trip and destroy a priceless work of art?" Well, this video will likely make you even more paranoid.
Yes, a 12-year-old boy visiting an exhibition of the Italian Baroque painter Paolo Porpora on display in Taipei was minding his own business when — whoops!
It's worse than it looks. He punched a hole right through the canvas of Porpora's "Flowers" — worth $1.5 million.
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"Once these works are damaged, they are permanently damaged," a post on the exhibition's Facebook page said (or, rather, scolded). Still, the organizers of the exhibition aren't going to ask the boy's family to cover the costs; thankfully, the painting was insured. However, that likely won't stop moms worldwide from showing this video to their kids and chiding, "See what I mean about watching where you're going?"
