A museum in the Netherlands said an artwork consisting of two hand-painted empty beer cans was "miraculously" recovered from the trash after an elevator technician accidentally threw them away thinking they were litter.

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 Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash...View on euronews

As the old saying goes, "One person's trash is another person's treasure." But a maintenance worker at a museum in the Netherlands missed the memo, throwing out a piece of art - which looked like two dented beer cans - that he mistook for trash.

An art piece in The LAM museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, was recently found in the bin after the lift technician mistook it for rubbish. This mistake is somewhat understandable – as the work looks like two empty cans of the Belgium beer Jupiler.

"Our art encourages visitors to see everyday objects in a new light." The post Beer Can Artwork Accidentally Thrown In Bin By Museum Staff Member, Who Mistook It For Trash first appeared on Bored Panda.