Controversial artwork gets a new home.

News for any Brussels-based fan of “Entropa”, the artwork that adorned and set a controversial tone for the Czech Republic’s presidency of the Council of Ministers in 2009. The work has been given a permanent home in Plzen, a capital of beer (Pilsner Urquell is brewed there), which is housing it in Techmanie, a museum that tries to enthuse the young about science.

The artwork’s  sense of irony was lost on some and offended various EU member states (the depiction of Bulgaria as a Turkish toilet was particularly provocative), so it seems a strange way of advancing Plzen’s ambitions to become European capital of culture in 2015.