A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash... View on euronews

A museum in the Netherlands has recovered an artwork that resembles two empty beer cans from the trash after an elevator technician accidentally disposed of them at work.

The artwork, which shows two dented beer cans on the floor, was thrown in a bin by a technician.

A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash...View on euronews

A convincing contemporary sculpture—featuring two hand-painted beer cans displayed on the floor of a Dutch art museum’s lift—was almost thrown away after a maintenance technician mistook the work for garbage.

In a modern art mishap, a newly hired elevator mechanic at a Dutch museum recently threw away a pair of empty beer cans that were actually part of an art piece on exhibit in the museum.

An art piece in The LAM museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, was recently found in the bin after the lift technician mistook it for rubbish. This mistake is somewhat understandable – as the work looks like two empty cans of the Belgium beer Jupiler.

An artwork that looks like a pair of empty beer cans narrowly escaped being lost after it was mistaken for rubbish and thrown into the bin at a Dutch museum. The artwork, titled A