Berlin museums ban bags in response to activists throwing food at art

Two climate activists carrying a banner 'What, if the government can't handle it?' stuck themselves to the handrails of a dinosaur skeleton in Berlin's Museum of Natural History in Berlin on Oct 30. Photo: AP

After soup, mashed potatoes and more were thrown at world-famous paintings in Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Rome, museums in the German capital are responding to the latest wave of climate activism by banning bags.

"Due to the increased risk," visitors can only enter exhibition rooms after storing jackets and bags at the cloakroom or in lockers, as of Nov 4 until further notice, a spokeswoman for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced.