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Pepper Spray At Denver Art Museum Disrupts Popular Monet Exhibit
A museum official said the pepper spray did not get into the ventilation system and there was no damage to any of the artwork.
DENVER (CBS4) – A search for a possible shoplifting suspect who discharged pepper spray inside the Denver Art Museum gift shop last Thursday hasn’t turned up a culprit. The main floor of the museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building was temporarily evacuated for about an hour and some people, mainly staff members, were treated by paramedics.
The situation came at a time when hundreds were in line at the museum with time designated tickets for “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,” the popular exhibition of works by the French impressionist painter. Some of those ticketholders had to be turned away.
