Flash Mob Shocks [VIDEO]: Cultured Group Recreates Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' in Dutch Mall, Surprises Shoppers

Most flash mobs involve intricate dance numbers of popular songs but this week in a Dutch mall, a masterpiece painting was recreated using the organized social media experiment. Dressed in 17^th century garb, a group of participants came into the mall at the sound of a security alarm going off and then organized themselves into Rembrandt's famous painting, "The Night Watch." The painting itself is known for its size; it is oil on canvas that measures about 12 feet by 14 feet and depicts Captain Frans Banning Cocq and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch, leading out their city guard.

This incident started with a theft alarm ringing throughout the mall, which drew the attention of concerned shoppers. As they worriedly looked around the shoppers soon came to discover a man who looked like he just got out of a time machine running away. Others joined the man by rappelling down from the ceiling on ropes, coming together to jump over a railing to meet some other participants awaiting them on horses. After all of the partakers were in the right spots, a giant frame came down to perfectly recreate "The Night Watch" painting. The shoppers of course applauded the cultural flash mob performance and took photos of the finished product.

According to one of the YouTube video descriptions of the video clip:

"A 30-strong flashmob turn up at a shopping centre in Holland, arriving on horses and abseiling from ropes to reconstruct a Rembrandt painting. Unsuspecting shoppers in Breda were treated to the scene as actors in seventeenth century outfits reconstructed the painting, The Night Watch. The stunt took place to promote the re-opening of the famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which has undergone an extensive restoration program since 2003. Report by Sophie Foster." 

Watch the cultured flash mob video clip right here: