The problem of visitors who come to museums to make memes or take selfies for social media is rampant,” the museum’s director said.

A visitor has damaged a 17th-century painting at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after stumbling back into it while posing for a photo, the museum told CNN in a statement.

A 300-year-old painting in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery has allegedly been damaged after a tourist stumbled and ripped the historic artwork whilst taking a selfie. Stunned onlookers looked on as the visitor fell backwards while attempting to “make a meme” in front of a portrait of Tuscan prince Ferdinando de’ Medici in Florence.