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		</div><p>Two people have tried – and failed – to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece The Scream at an Oslo museum, Norwegian police said.</p>
<p>No harm was reported to the painting of a waif-like figure appearing to scream.</p>
<p>Police said officers were called to the National Museum of Norway on Friday and had three people under “control”.</p>
<p>A third person filmed the pair trying to affix to the painting, Norwegian news agency NTB said.</p>
<p>The room where the glass-protected painting is exhibited was “emptied of the public and closed” and will reopen as soon as possible, the museum said.</p>
<p>The rest of the venue remained open.</p>
<p>Police said there was glue residue on the glass mount.</p>
<p>A video of the incident showed museum guards holding two activists with one shouting “I scream for people dying” and another one shouts “I scream when lawmakers ignore science” while a person was shielding the painting from the protesters.</p>
<p>Environmental activists from the Norwegian organisation Stopp oljeletinga — Norwegian for Stop Oil Exploration — were behind the stunt, saying they “wanted to pressure lawmakers into stopping oil exploration”.</p>
<p>Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas.</p>
<p>“We are campaigning against Scream because it is perhaps Norway’s most famous painting,” activist spokeswoman Astrid Rem told the Associated Press.</p>
<p>“There have been lots of similar actions around Europe. They have managed something that no other action has managed: achieve an extremely large amount of coverage and press.”</p>
<p>It is the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums.</p>
<p>Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring in a Dutch museum in October were sentenced to two months in prison.</p>
<p>The painting was not damaged and returned to its wall a day later.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and a similar protest happened in London, where protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.</p>
<p>In both those cases, the paintings also were not damaged.</p>
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