Climate protesters target the famous "Scream" painting in a museum in Oslo

Norwegian police announced that two climate protesters had unsuccessfully sought today to attach themselves to Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting "The Scream", which is displayed in the Oslo Museum.

The painting was not damaged.

Police added that the Norwegian National Museum had told them that three people were under their "control".

The Norwegian news agency, NTP, reported that the third person was filming climate protesters who tried to attach themselves to the painting.

The museum also stated that the hall in which the painting was displayed was "emptied from the public and closed", and that it would reopen at the earliest opportunity, while the rest of the museum's halls remained open.

The police reported that there was glue residue on the glass box in which the painting is located.

A videotaped video showed museum guards holding two activists, one shouting "I'm screaming for the dying" while the other shouting "I'm screaming when lawmakers ignore the flag" and a person standing trying to protect the painting.

It is noteworthy that this is the latest episode in a series of climate activists targeting famous paintings in European museums, to draw attention to their cause.

Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting at a Dutch museum in October were sentenced to two months in prison.

The plate was not damaged and was returned to its place the next day.

Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum, and there was also a protest in London in which protesters threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".

In both cases the plates were not damaged.

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