Climate-change activists on Tuesday smeared and glued one of their hands to a glass screen protecting a Gustav Klimt painting in a Vienna museum to protest against oil drilling, on a day when entry was free thanks to an oil firm's sponsorship.
Activist group Last Generation posted images online of one supporter pouring what it called a "black, oily liquid" on the screen in front of Klimt's
One of Last Generation Austria's tweets said: "New drilling for oil and gas is a death sentence for humanity." While the museum sympathised with the activists' cause, it disagreed with the means employed, Wipplinger said.
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