More than 800 pounds of peanut butter were slathered on the floor of a museum in the Netherlands to honor a Dutch conceptual artist who died last month.
Wim T. Schippers, who died on June 10 at the age of 83, created the first “Pindakaasvloer,” or peanut butter floor, in 1969.
The peanut butter floor in homage to the beloved non-conformist character was unveiled on Thursday at the Depot offshoot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam — with enough nut butter for a whopping 15,000 sandwiches.
Two employees of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen spent several days meticulously applying 40 buckets of peanut butter to a thickness of 0.8 inches in a precise 270-square-foot hexagon.
“It was a lot of work,” Leon Duenk, one of the two men who installed the artwork, told the Associated Press.
Schippers, who also voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of “Sesame Street,” created the peanut display as part of a Floor Covering Series, which also included floors covered in glass shards and salt.
“Isn’t it fantastic that we are all standing here looking at peanut butter?” Schippers told reporters at the Central Museum in Utrecht in 1997 during Pindakaasvloer’s second display.
Before his death, the artist and the museum discussed a 20-point plan on how to recreate the nutty exhibit with stipulations that the peanut butter be applied “as smoothly and boringly as possible” and that “no one is supposed to stand in, or lie down on the peanut butter.”
Though Schippers did not specify the size or shape of the work, he preferred smooth peanut butter from the Dutch brand Calvé, which donated 40 tubs for the honorary display.
Multiple visitors stepped on the peanut butter floor when it was on display in 2011.
It was also vandalized in 1997 by a crew of pranksters who placed 12 slices of bread and several bags of hagelslag chocolate sprinkles on the floor.
“It doesn’t look bad,” Schippers told Dutch newspaper Volkskrant at the time. “The sprinkles have been applied with a sense of proportion and a skillful hand.”
The museum — which is now wafting with the nostalgic lunch-box aroma — has a warning at its entrance for visitors with peanut allergies to consider not entering the space.
This year’s Pindakaasvloer will be on display until Sept. 6, according to the museum’s website.
With Post wires
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