Boy trips in museum, tears hole in 17th century painting worth $1.5m

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I thought the real paintings were never actually out on display? Which always confused me and may be false, but I thought I remembered reading that valuable paintings were stored for safety.

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A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy lived out a slapstick nightmare at the weekend when he tripped at a museum and broke his fall with a painting, smashing a hole in it.

Exhibition organisers said the painting was a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora oil on canvas work called Flowers, valued at $1.5m.

Footage released by the organisers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition in Taipei shows the boy – in shorts, trainers, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a drink – walk past the still life, catching his foot and stumbling over.

He looks up at the canvas, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and freezes, looking around at other people in the room.

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Put him on a payment plan.

"Like a good neighbor... State Farm is there!"

Dam Son

He should sue the museum for the emotional distress they have caused by having a tripping hazard in front of a valuable painting.

Viral marketing for the Taiwan reboot of Family Matters.

Damn. I would shite myself.

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dumb arse museum employees are at fault for putting it on display where it could be destroyed.

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my thoughts as well