Exterior of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, photographed in January 2015. Museum officials announced on August 17 that it has closed temporarily to deal with an infestation of silverfish, a paper-eating bug. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit MRG90. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Tehran’s contemporary art museum has issued an apology and temporarily closed to handle a pest infestation, raising concerns after footage of insects scuttling across world-famous work spread widely on social media.