A Netherlands museum confirms staff recovered French artist Alexandre Lavet's realistic beer-can art pieces after they were mistaken for trash and thrown out.

A lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty beer cans.

Artist Alexandre Lavet's aluminum replicas of beer cans at the LAM Museum in Lisse were a little too realistic.

A museum in the Netherlands is shaking off a simple mistake after an employee accidentally threw away a piece of are thinking it was trash. The artwork was created by Alexandre Lavet.

Another factor that could have led to confusion was the fact that the cans are on display in a glass elevator shaft, "as if they had been left behind during construction," the mus

A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash...View on euronews

A convincing contemporary sculpture—featuring two hand-painted beer cans displayed on the floor of a Dutch art museum’s lift—was almost thrown away after a maintenance technician mistook the work for garbage.