According to a leaked memo, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is reportedly planning to let a children’s comic book team run an exhibition there next summer, which will include Michaelangelo’s “David” statue making farting noises as people walk past.
The exhibition, being billed as a takeover of the museum by “The Beano,” aims to encourage children to visit the museum, the UK’s Daily Mail reports.
“The Beano,” known for its anarchic humor, has been published weekly since 1938 and its most famous character is Dennis the Menace.
The museum’s replica of “David” is to be fitted with a speaker that will cause the sculpture to break wind.
Other plans for the museum include a display of slingshots, famously used by Dennis the Menace, and covering one of the museum’s most valuable objects, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, with vinyl comic book signs.
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