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

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.

Museum officials in Italy shared a stern warning to guests after surveillance video captured a man breaking a piece of ...