Why have people spread peanut butter on the floor at a museum?

More than 363 kg (800 lbs) of peanut butter has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands, in tribute to an artist's most famous piece.

Dutch artist Wim T.Schippers, who died last month, first created Pindakaasvloer, or peanut butter floor, in 1962.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the port city of Rotterdam has recreated it, along with the artist's precise instructions on how to put it together, for a two-month show.

Wim T.Schippers originally created the work as part of a Floor Covering Series, which also included floors covered with pieces of broken glass and salt.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen says the artwork reflects the artist's "innovative" view of art and humour.

The museum says the piece raises questions such as: "Is this art?" and "Am I allowed to find this beautiful?"

"Schippers believed that art does not necessarily have to be logical or useful.

It may be absurd - just like life itself - and that is precisely what makes it worthwhile."

For the latest recreation two museum employees spent several days spreading 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 25-square-metre hexagon shape.

The pair used plastering trowels to apply the peanut butter to a thickness of 2 cm.

The museum is also exhibiting the most recent instructions for the piece written by the artist, so the work could be recreated.

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.

This is definitely not one to try at home!

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