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Oops! Museum worker tosses two beer cans in the trash — not realizing it was art

Carla Sinclair
Oct 08, 2024
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Image: Adam Constanza / shutterstock.com
Image: Adam Constanza / shutterstock.com

As the old saying goes, "One person's trash is another person's treasure." But a maintenance worker at a museum in the Netherlands missed the memo, throwing out a piece of art — which looked like two dented beer cans — that he mistook for trash.

The artwork, "All The Good Times We Spent Together" by French artist A…

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