A five-year-old boy holding a pine cone inadvertently damaged a beloved Magritte painting at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Conservators are now restoring the 1959 surrealist work, which depicts a castle floating above stormy seas on an enormous rock.

The museum says such incidents occasionally happen worldwide and it is evaluating how to balance visitor access with protecting artworks.

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A painting by the Belgian artist René Magritte has been damaged by a 5-year-old boy wielding a pine cone.