From BZ/epd
The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, has expressed concern about attacks by climate activists on cultural assets.
One hundred percent security can only be guaranteed by body searches, he said on Monday evening on the radio station RBB-Kultur: “We don’t want to imagine that.” Parzinger, on the other hand, announced a “general ban on bags” in the museums of the foundation.
Until now, visitors could take smaller bags with them when visiting the museum. Additional lockers would have to be purchased for these. Plastic bags should be made available for people who always carry medication with them, Parzinger said. Climate activists had recently splashed paintings with liquids in several museums.
The activists of the group “Last Generation” in front of the smeared Monet in Potsdam’s Barberini Museum Photo: Uncredited/Last Generation/AP/dpa
The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation expressed understanding for the goals of the climate activists. Global warming is “a huge problem of our time”. At the same time, he warned against people who imitate the protest actions “with absurd goals”.
The woman who splashed red liquid on a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the Old National Gallery over the weekend obviously had nothing to do with climate goals, Parzinger said. She threw leaflets on the ground about electromagnetic waves.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation includes five institutions. The Berlin State Museums, the Berlin State Library, the Secret State Archives, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research are united under its roof.