Leopold Museum Welcomes Naked Visitors

Vienna’s prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-up place, but Friday some of the nudes in its galleries were for real, The Guardian reports. Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an offer of free entry to “The Naked Truth,” an exhibition of early-1900s erotic art, if they showed up wearing just a swimsuit—or nothing at all. Peter WeinHäupl, the Leopold’s commercial director, said the goal was to help people beat the heat while creating a mini-scandal, reminiscent of the way the artworks by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and others shocked the public when they were unveiled a century ago.