What If You Damaged Something in a Museum by Accident?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- 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...
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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.
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Hey there, BrightSiders! What’s your favorite painting?
mona lisa, and my crush broke my heart
I'm early
Mona Lisa it is just so mysterious and etc.
Monalisa cause it's only painting I know🤣🤣🤣
Monalisa
First of all,
Why would you bring a paint bucket to a museum?
You trying to mess something up
E a t
@@stephenpaea177 uh
To hide your face from the security
@@stephenpaea177 hahaha
Me: Breaks something in museum..
Also me: *Ight imma head out*
Police: IM gonna stop you right there
Lol
Facts
I am sorry for my stupidity but what does lght means? I am very sorry.
@MonsterMarty _Yt Oh, thank you so much! Now I know it. Thanks a lot!
You can't replace something from the museum with an original one because it has different historical value and substance. Maybe a replica will do.
I did not go to an normal museum before the only museum I went to is the children museum
Do u think so?
Balle Rina But that will become history in the future!
almost everything is either a replica or restored as close to "as new" quality as possible with as close to authentic materials as possible
almost nothing you see in a museum is as it was found
TRUe....
Me: *accidentally breaks a vase*
Manager: its ok, kid. *overprotects the vases with iron bars and chains and cameras*
And some obsidian and lazers and fire shooters
FoxGamer_XD :3 u autustic or like Minecraft mods
:O is that true?!
@@tiktokcloudy7728 oh yea and some creeper launchers and some tnt launchers and some obsidian efficiency 9,801 bedrock pickaxe and some withers and ender dragons
@@CJPlayz777 the yes
I took a girl to the Dali Museum in St Pete, FL. I was horrified when she reached out and touched a painting. The painting was barely hanging on the wall and shook. Can't take some people anywhere.
Good thing you dumped her, you dodged a bullet
Must've been a surreal experience for her.
@@valzalel5203 Good one!
@@valzalel5203 Underrated comment
Who takes a girl to a museum
*B Y A C C I D E N T*
*LITERALLY SHOWS A THUMBNAIL OF A KID PUTTING HIS HANDS IN A BUCKET OF PAINT AND RUINING THE MONA LISA*
@Grey the Marble Racer 2020 poor mona lisa was hurt
Oops
He might of tripped and spilt the bucket of paint
Most tourists aren’t very intelligent when it comes to things like this.
yeah
Tourist family:
Dad: George (42)
Mom: Sam (39)
Kid: Kate (7)
@@minxminx Kid: 3
[edit] Wow, thanks for all the likes! I totally didn’t expect that!
@@xaddox7524 ah my bad
In prison:
Inmate:”What are you in for”?
You:”By breaking art”
That's Dosent sound bad
@@daniam9984 but it was really valuable and expensive
It doesn't sound that bad when you say it out loud
@@cookiecorn619 It isn’t as morally bad as other crimes like robbery, etc.. Unless, you broke the art intentionally like a maniac.
"Oh i killed someone"
3:12 the old couple were dairy farmers. Milk the clock like a cow bruh
Wow thanks for the likes :-)
Lol... exactly my thoughts!
Well, those with dirtier brains had a different thought.
😂 lol
Haha!
XD
you broke a priceles painting on museum??
to solve that problem : ask Mr. Bean
DPWRepublic lol
He remade a priceless painting with eggs
XD
XD
I remember...
0:45 who was waiting for him to say I did it but he said the lady over there did it 😂🤣😂🤣
Me-
Haha
Me
The worst thing I have ever broken, was my heart.
Charot
Jaslin Revelly whu?
Every time adrien says, “we’re just friends” :’((
@@mx3324 same though :(
Jaslin Revelly what did it cost
So no guards or security just watched that guy climb up there
i do no bruh
It was an outdoor statue on a pedestal. Does your city have guards around all their outdoor statues?
What are you in for?
“Oh I just felt like punching an $11 million dollar painting like 3 times”
Hehe
I think that these priceless artifacts should be protected better so that we don’t loose them.
Agreed
ikr! what if in the future they’ll need those artifacts but won’t ever be able to retrieve them because they broke!!
Lose
No kidding
Well... lost of things have been lost during time. Just happens. At the end of the day, history is slowly going to be lost.
Throw something and people will confuse it with art
It doesn't always happen, does it?
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL hi
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL : I'm the best
Me: he's the best
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL LOL
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
That's a lot
Simple answer...
You pay for it
YallowMengo nope
Run away
White sister of course
Run away
Nah is
You break it
You pay it
Just a peace of cake
No tf were too Brooke
Novella don’t worry, I will.
MUSEUM GUY- Hey what you in for today..
ANDREW- Nothing much, I just felt like punching a 11 million dollar painting. 3 times 🤠
😂😂😂😂😂
MUSEUM GUY: Out now
Lol
Its rwo times so umm like yea
( Accidentally breaks something )
Me: No worries I’ll just put some super glue on that.
No, don't use glue.
Use flex seal!
CandyPopPastel NOOOOO😂
*FlEx tApE! ITs tHe bEsT tApE iN tHe wOrLd!*
@@Saythe Objection!
Then how would you know where the pieces go???!!!
Don't you just hate it when you spill your bucket of paint all over the Mona Lisa?
yeah happens to me twice a week
Happens to me all the time I mean I can't stop
Lol to the op and everyone in the comments section so far
Yeah😤it sucks
I feel you man, everyone does it these days
I have broken my friend's elbow during arm wrestling 😂😂😂but also felt guilty
Have you tried to put his arm in some rice 🍚 it works :)
@@owo_bread6474 noodles
Despacito Neboo, yes that 2
I don’t care that you broke your elbow
omg please never do arm wrestling again 😱😱
I wish your videos might be on #1 trending🔥🔥 Why not, your videos are always amazing💕😍
Ok
Yes
What did we learn today everyone?
Don’t go to museums
Unknown Person haha not real
Thank you all for the likes btw
@@pikameow3231 r/woosh
@@maindersingh1901 lol he's just joking
lol right
The worst thing I ever broke was an eraser, I was trying to see how bendable it was and then it snapped
My bad 🤷♂️🤷♂️ won't do it again I promise 🙆♂️
*breaks ankle* Research purposes.. 😸
Lol
@@ace4twice I was able to smash a window with a water bottle A WATER BOTTLE HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!?!?!
I would chip away small pieces of my eraser and throw it at people on the classroom.
@@sukitoru- OMG same
The worst thing I broke was my nose after my mom punched me for nothing.
Others. :"Damages priceless pieces of art"
no charges
Me: scratches TV screen. Gets grounded
...
I feel you...
Did you buy the TV? 🤔
Is the tv insured?
Ikr
Those patrons who recklessly destroyed priceless art work at a museum or any public places should be held responsible and pay for any damages 🤔.
It was an accident and Not everyone can pay it must be expensive🙄🙄
When I was younger I went to the natural history museum in london and there was a kid there (I was talking to him and my mum was talking to his mum) and he started climbing over a statue so my mum said “I don’t think you’re ment to touch that” hes mum said “oh they won’t care” then both of them left shortly after and a woman (who works for the museum) came down the stairs and had a go at me for climbing on the statue and my mum explained that it wasn’t me and she said “well I saw it on the CCTV and he’s the only kid in here” then she kicked us out of the room but we ended up just leaving the museum because all the workers were keeping a close eye on us after that. Still makes me kinda angry 😡
That's just soooo deep
So sleepy 😪
Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!! Really Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable!
Your true it's really unbelievable!
8:07
Painting = 10000000$ +
Plexiglass case = 20$ - 40$
🤔 hmmmmmmmmm 😆
Imagine buying hundreds
FOXY WATER there’s not only one pAinting you know
HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM
@@uniwolfgamer1094 right 2000-4000$
@@yesimtheonewholovesjunmyeo9724 Exactly. Imagine the cost of all of the paintings
Jimmy: *Brings a FULL bucket of paint to museum*
Also Jimmy: *Theres nothing gonna go wrong*
0:38 that makes me laugh!
Me too
😡
Do you want to break the arts and the manager ist gonna be happy😠😡
Breaks priceless piece of art and gets told it is fine
*Gets fined for denting a can at a store after dropping it*
That was the best tip ever for first time experiencing visit in a famous museum. Love yr channel always.
that janitor cleanigg those “modern art” did their job right
Agreed
You need some help with spelling
I was finding this comment lol so true
@@wafflez2087 You need a dot at the end.
@@crocizide6719 anddd who cares?
My worst thing I broke was my heart for a worthless ex
ooh uhm no
ME: breaks something in the house...
My Mom: its your last day in this world..
Funny username you do know he’s married to a woman right?
Me: *closes door slightly harder than I used to*
Mom: *YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO LIVE*
Okay let's see..
2:38
tree 17th - century vases
Instead of three
hazel clemence r/whooosh
@hazel clemence you are right but I am just pointing out that there is a mistake. so that they don't make it again.
what?
Lol
@@AndrewGuns aw man
The BEST story of damaged art and consequences is as follows, but you gotta look up the actual video for full effect: it features a mother at Shanghai Museum of Glass who let her children literally tear apart a glass sculpture WHILE SHE TOOK PICTURES, security video of which went viral in 2016. It’s unbelievable. The artist, Shelly Xue, was amazingly cool about it. It had taken 27 months to make the pair of angel wings, named “Angel is Waiting”, and she’d dedicated it to her newborn daughter. It had been on display for two years before the incident. After the considerable damage, Xue simply renamed it “Broken”, and it still hangs. Best of all, the museum has installed a video screen running a loop of the destruction, right next to the piece. It’s brilliant!
Let's just go to the museum with a paint bucket and make our own masterpieces :)
Bright side: what if you damaged something in a museum by accident
Me: *uhhh...You will be fined for that something*
Yhea i am the first person to reply
2:37 *TREE* 17TH-CENTURY VASES
You have soo many likes
@@preethiramesh11 wow I completely forgot about my own comment and the 37 likes it has
T R E E
Underrated comment btw
@@kiitkaat05 thanks
The first time I took my Daughter to a museum she was about 6. I was showing her how the beautiful monet was painted using dots. She reached up and touched it. I think I nearly passed out. We just turned and walked out as fast as we could. I didnt take her back to a museum for many years after that!
0:53
The Museum man was so angry that he transformed into a siren.
“It was dark in the studio”
Says the literal self powered walking lightbulb
lol
😂😂😂
@Irene Lee I didn’t see your comment, I just thought of this myself
you joined UA-cam 6 months ago and I posted this comment 1 year ago
Me: How high is the damage
Painters: Yes.
Sounds like they are higher than the damage
A good man's heart 💔 is the worst thing I
Ever broke .
Wait wot?
fricking True.
Brightside:what's the worst thing you have ever broke?me:My family's heart
4:35 Where's my car? :^
I broked My grandmas Vases When I was trying to Make big baloons inside her House lol then after that they put the broken piece as a decoration outside 😂
ummmmmmmmmm random
Broke not broked
My Chair Broke and I slammed on the floor in an office meeting. Then 10 seconds of silence and then giggling.😂
Ah!!💗 That satisfying intro again 😃
Yes lol
2:41 “TREE 17TH-CENTURY VASES”
Akshay Rasal. lol
T R E E
Oh no you broke a painting!
Did you try putting it in rice?
LOLLL
Nah just put ice on it
R/wooooosh
Cringey gacha life comment
Turn it off and on again!
Simple answer:
They could just put computer painted replicas or put the real paintings behind very very strong glass...
keval patel well they did do that but someone actually still managed to damage the glass and painting
@@glados1099 in that case the person who breaks it should at least be fined for it...
"or put the real paintings behind very very strong glass..."
They already mentioned why they won't do that.
@@shawbros oo but not like rly.strongnglass but like a protective glass or a.normla one
@@kevalpatel6637
That still costs a lot of money.
If I broke/ripped something in a museum,
I would probably burst into tears.
I'm a kid.
I wouldn't call, my cash would
3:34 just reminding myself where I was cause I'm going to bed
U deserve alot of likes like 500
Guy in red t-shirt breaks very expensive days keep smiling when pulling the pieces out of hair XD
I meant to say vase
Me: breaks a 10000 year statue by mistake
Manager: don’t worry, we got thousands more art
@Penelopa Cute r/wooosh
@ᗰᗩᑎᘜᗩ cloud they said 10,000
Not of any extreme value, but as a small child I got into my mother's old handmade cedar chest and found her old doll collection (the type meant for display only), played with them and managed to ruined them. I also found in there this huge all-day sucker that she had saved from some special occasion years before and ate the thing. My mom was not happy. At least several years later I still have her cedar chest, which I feel is the more priceless item since it was handmade by her father.
Bright side: What if you Damaged Something in A museum by Accident?
Me: Well then you’d survive the attack
When I was a toddler, I once broke my dads priceless whine bottle from Spain. Man, was he angry.
I accidently stepped gucci flip flop from rich kid that I call Karen
People breaks painting
Nobody:
Nobody:
That one museum owner I fIxEd ThIs PaInTiNg WiTh FlEx TaPe
the most important thing i broke was my ipad
IKR
I had a bad case and it was one with the leather cover that turns your iPad off. I checked to see if it was off, and dropped it. It looked like a large spider web.
Mine was a ✏️
@Alpha bruh
@Alpha time isn't a thing
@Alpha space is a place
1..
2..
3...
4...
5... The floor is lava!...oh wait your in your bed nvm
Omg your right i am in bed
@Niamh cullen okay
Alka @Niamh cullen
I'm not on my bed
@@rghazanfar1696 well oops i was wrong then
hey life is more important than a 1000 yearsold dusty vase
Thats not true
BRIGHT SIDE:YOU GOT A BRAND NEW CAR
Me:MAY I HAVE MERCEDES FREE?
0:54 What is up with that man😂😂😂😂😂
Air raid siren
@@doomslayer2321 yes
Please do the face reveal of man that gives voice in every video I want to see his face before leaving this Earth 😅
Right
TRUE... WE WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE BRIGHT SIDE.
I'm dying to see his face 😖
That's never gonna happen 😔
It's said no one has seen his face... and LIVED!
Me: Oopsie
Museum owner: *grabs a huge belt me: ah shoot here we go again
Once when I was little I broke my moms decorative bowl. Luckily, she was going to get a new one so she didn’t get that mad.
Good for you:)
Im glad your mom didnt get mad
Oooooooo
"Tree 17th-Century Vases"
Three: Am I joke to you?
Mark i noticed it too
I read it too
Eeeeee
Four: yes
Brain.exe has stopped working
for the monet painting, i actually went to this museum that was a mansion in the 1800's (Its called the biltmore estate) and he made paintings to decorate the house, when you go to the house, you get to see the original paintings and its an amazing museum, sorry for the big ad, and all but if your in north carolina, close to asheville and are looking for a museum, the biltmore is definetly a 4.5/5
Just imagine breaking the painting of
Mona Lisa!!!!
RUDEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The entire universe will never forgive you!
imagine Mona Lisa dabbing
The Mona Lisa painting would be worth 1000million
You will be in jail forever
Imagine traveling across a country to buy just one picture but when u get there it’s either bought or damaged
S A D
Me :Breaks something in museum
'Ow, I'm in Temple run"
What that makes no sense but it's kinda funny 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: Not a museum person but a curator 👍
4:18 Bright Side: Um, would you care to guess what happened next?
Me: It fell off and demolished into pieces like that stall structure did.
You won a brand new car!
CGS you just won a brand new car! Lol
“Hey! Lets go break some historic museum arts! We wont get punished!”
I work at a military aviation museum. We usually just tell them not to touch the aircraft.
4:25 Ohhh thank you! Now where's my brand new car? Hahaha jk
I once got close so close to a painting. I was smelling the painting and an alarm activated
That's why you bring a sack of Jasmine rice and Sapporo ichiban noodles
There should be a huge glass box covering everything
7:43
That's the reason why
Cool video!
Me: breaks priceless vase
Also me: (my everyday reaction)
That wasn't me
This made me remember of the movie *Bean* 😂😂
Haha yes I saw that movie
4:25 The best time of my life
Very intresting, always stay on the bright side! :D
6es
Yes
Interesting how many paintings are valued over 100k and even more than a million. I wonder how much money those artists, modern or not, won by making it cause I'm sure it wasn't near that amount
Few that’s a relief I just repaired the king tutankamin’s tomb that was a close one
Me: * Trips over velvet*
Painting: Am I a joke to you?????
Lol
I can't imagine being kicked out of a museum 😶
Thumbnail: then why was he painting on it in the first place? (Or bringing a paint bucket)
What If You Damaged Something in a Meuseum by Accident?
Maded in: Aug 26 2019
No need to watch this I'm going to apply Mr bean formula for that problem
Malemsana Khuman nice kid
My favorite painting is.....the dabbing monowisa!
Ugh, “spilled” my OPEN PAINT BUCKET ON A PAINTING WITH MY HAND on “ACCIDENT”...
👌🏻
Forget paintings, I’m terrified of breaking the sauce bottles at Nando’s 😟😟🙃🙃
What if you damage something in museum
Search this video by bright side
You run
Announcer : you have won a brand new car!!!
Me : really?!?!?! What kind of car???
Announcer : A brand new police car! Going to JAIL
Me : oh...
LOL 😆 🤣