
It was this overhanging section that collapsed, leading to the accident. Other staff on scene called an emergency center, but responders were unable to save the worker.Īccording to pictures posted by media, the room was located on the roof of the museum, but a small section of it hung over the lip of the roof. The statement said that the worker was in a machine room on top of the building of the museum on Tuesday, when a portion of the floor in the room gave way, leading the man to fall two stories down. On Saturday, the official Sina Weibo account for Beijing's MWoods Art Museum published a statement about the "accident." In each exhibition hall, the musician and his collaborators have created environments for visitors to experience and share music and sound, according to the exhibition's introduction.Ī new opening date has not yet been announced. The exhibition was co-arranged by Chinese and Japanese artists to debut almost all of Sakamoto's sound installation works in the Chinese mainland for the first time ever.


The largest solo exhibition of Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has won multiple awards including Oscars and Grammys, was originally set to open at a Chinese art museum on Monday, but the opening was postponed on Sunday after a worker died in an accident.
