(Berlin) Two environmental activists clung to a pole supporting the skeleton of a dinosaur on display in the Berlin Museum of Natural History on Sunday to protest against the German government’s climate policy.
Posted at 4:11 p.m.
It is the latest such action by climate activists in a museum, after famous works of art were targeted in several cities across Europe.
In Berlin, two women wearing orange vests stuck to one of the metal poles supporting the skeleton of a dinosaur more than 60 million years old.
They carried a banner that read: “What if the government does not control the situation? »
One of the women, Caris Connell, said she feared “wildfires, water shortages, famines and wars”.
The dinosaurs died out because they couldn’t withstand the massive changes in climate. It also threatens us.
Caris Connell, environmental activist
The other activist, Solvig Schinkoethe, said that as a mother of four she feared the consequences of climate change.
“Peaceful resistance is the way we have chosen to protect our children from governments’ mortal ignorance,” the 42-year-old said.
The museum said the incident was resolved within an hour by police intervention. There was property damage and criminal charges were filed, he said in a statement.
The two activists belong to the group “Last Generation” which, at the beginning of the month, spread mashed potatoes on the glass protecting the canvas of Claude Monet Millstones at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Environmental activists also glued themselves to the glass protecting the pearl girl by Johannes Vermeer in a museum in the Netherlands and others threw soup on the one that protected the Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London.