Tourist breaks Van Gogh Chair in Verona museum, damaging Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski artwork while ignoring warnings for a ...

A museum has appealed for two tourists who broke a crystal-encrusted chair by sitting on it to come forward and apologise.

An Italian museum has launched a manhunt for the most unlikely of outlaws -- two clumsy middle-aged tourists who managed to almost wreck a work of art while posing for photos. Video ...

A tourist sat on a “Van Gogh” chair at an art gallery before the piece collapsed underneath him.CCTV footage showed a man and ...

The responsible individuals are shown fleeing the scene in what the Palazzo Maffei’s director called “any museum’s nightmare.

A visitor taking a photo at the Palazzo Maffei crushed an Swarovski Crystal-covered sculpture by Nicola Bolla, known as Van Gogh Chair.

Ms. Carlon noted that they “walked out slowly, not rushing.” One of the museum’s security guards saw the pair leaving the museum via the building’s large baroque staircase, she added. But right ...

A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum were posing for photos pretending to sit on Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh” chair, when the man accidentally sat down on the artwork, smashing it.

The couple, who was not identified, fled the scene at the Palazzo Maffei museum in Italy after the chair broke. See the video ...