Museum Cleaner Washed Away A Precious Sculpture, Unknowingly

Mike Siepmann - AP

A sculpture "Wenn's anfaengt durch die Decke zu tropfen" ( "When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling" ) by German artist Martin Kippenberger in the Ostwall museum in Dortmund, western Germany was damaged by a lady cleaner. The cleaner tried to scrub away a dried rain like puddle at base of sculpture.
The piece of arts was worth 800,000 euro (US dollars 1.1 million).