News - Tourist Smashes Qing Vases at The British Museum - London

A tourist, who clearly had problems with tying his shoelaces, managed to topple and fall down a staircase at the British Museum (www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk), bang into a display of ancient Qing Dynasty vases. The man managed to shatter the priceless works, which were donated to the Museum in 1948, into tiny pieces. No mean feat given that they had sat on the windowsill for some forty years. Now it seems likely that the museum will change their policy of displaying works on open display.