Last May of this year, the Shanghai Glass Museum once again experienced one of its nightmares when a pair of children who were running inside the facilities partially destroyed a Disney Castle glass sculpture.

Valued at $64,000 USD, the work was created on comission for the company Arriba Brothers, a company famous for creating collectible pieces inspired on Disney world. The work in question held the record for being the largest glass castle sculpture in the world, which was made from 30,000 pieces (including some made of 24-karat gold) and took more than 500 hours to produce.

The children (and their parents) acknowledged to the museum staff their guilt and their inappropriate behavior within the institution. “Their attitudes were friendly and sincere, and they agreed to help with the necessary procedures,” the museum stated. For its part, the company Arriba Brothers has agreed to cover the costs necessary to repair the piece.

This is not the first time that the Shanghai Glass Museum has had negative experiences with children. In 2016, two children breached the museum's security barriers and tampered with a work by artist Shelly Xue until it was damaged. The security cameras revealed that the parents witnessed everything and even recorded their children with their cell phones while they played with the work. Xue, who had created the piece with a dedication to her newborn daughter, renamed the work “Broken,” and it is currently displayed next to a screen that plays the video recorded by the cameras of how the piece was damaged.

With information from ArtNet News