{"id":692110,"date":"2026-07-15T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692110\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:06:36","slug":"why-have-people-spread-peanut-butter-on-the-floor-at-a-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692110\/","title":{"rendered":"Why have people spread peanut butter on the floor at a museum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the latest recreation two museum employees spent several days spreading 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 25-square-metre hexagon shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair used plastering trowels to apply the peanut butter to a thickness of 2 cm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum is also exhibiting the most recent instructions for the piece written by the artist, so the work could be recreated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Wim T. Schippers, 15.6 kg of smooth peanut butter (not chunky) per m2 should be used, no one should stand or lie on the peanut butter floor and the peanut butter should be applied as smoothly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is definitely not one to try at home!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let us know what you think of this in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the latest recreation two museum employees spent several days spreading 40 buckets of peanut butter across a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}