A lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty beer cans.

A Netherlands museum confirms staff recovered French artist Alexandre Lavet's realistic beer-can art pieces after they were mistaken for trash and thrown out.

A convincing contemporary sculpture—featuring two hand-painted beer cans displayed on the floor of a Dutch art museum’s lift—was almost thrown away after a maintenance technician mistook the work for garbage.

A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin thinking it was

A museum in the Netherlands is shaking off a simple mistake after an employee accidentally threw away a piece of are thinking it was trash. The artwork was created by Alexandre Lavet.

A work of art was rescued from the trash at a Dutch museum after being mistaken for what it depicts: a pair of abandoned beer cans.

A museum in the Netherlands has recovered an artwork that resembles two empty beer cans from the trash after an elevator technician accidentally disposed of them at work.

The artwork, which shows two dented beer cans on the floor, was thrown in a bin by a technician.