Rijksmuseum: Climate Activists Protest ING, Leaving Museum Virtually Empty – Archyde

A spokesperson for the Rijksmuseum reports that there are currently a few hundred visitors inside, compared to around 8,000 normally.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will not receive the usual thousands but only hundreds of visitors on Saturday due to a so-called visitors strike by Extinction Rebellion.

TURIN – A protest action shook the last day of the American Nature exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin. About thirty activists from Extinction Rebellion symbolically occupied a room in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum to denounce the bank’s investments in fossil fuels. The activists, who had regular tickets, lay down in the room dedicated to the environmental damage caused by the fossil fuel industry, representing the destruction and loss of …

Rijksmuseum: Climate Activists Protest ING, Leaving Museum Virtually Empty – Archyde

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An unusual sight on a Saturday during the holidays: The famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is almost empty. Activists are behind this. They organized a "visitor strike"