two activists environmental This Wednesday, they painted a painting by a French artist with red paint. Claude Monet in that Stockholm National Museum in protest against the ecological situation caused by the loss of wetlands in Sweden.

The climate movement Restore Wetlands, Aterstall Vatmarker in Swedish, reported in its profile on Twitter that two of its activists, after staining the painting with red paint stuck to the glass that protected the painting in question, called Garden artist in Giverny.

“They want to draw attention to the fact that the climate crisis is also a health crisis and that heat-related illnesses are an increasing problem,” spokeswoman Roxy Farhat said, according to news from Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

Farhat also indicated that the painting was “undamaged” and that two environmental activists, a nurse and a nursing student, were detained by the Swedish police, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.

For its part, Per Hedström, spokesman for the National Museum, said that “cultural heritage has great symbolic value and it is unacceptable to attack or destroy it, regardless of the purpose.” Restorers inspect a Monet painting for damage.

Added to these actions are protests that have taken place in various museums, where activists have also thrown various objects at works of art, including Monet, Van Gogh, Goya, and even a dinosaur skeleton.

Calling for action on climate change, environmental groups and activists have chosen to protest through art, but in a destructive way.

Last November, members of the Última Generación group sprayed the artist’s painting with black liquid. Gustav Klimt in that Leopold Museum in Vienna and on October 27, three climate activists from the Just Stop Oil group glued their heads to a painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer.