A mystery cyclist has been caught on Saddleworth Museum's CCTV applying an anti-mask poster with strong glue.
The Saddleworth Museum and Gallery took the decision to carry on wearing face masks in the building after July 19 due to the number of Covid infections.
However, one cyclist came prepared to cover up its notice with his own.
He was captured on his bike, in full cycling gear, at around 5.30pm on Saturday - an hour after the museum closed up.
The poster said that we should all stop wearing 'muzzles' and was from the anti-lockdown White Rose group, according to employees at the museum.
The group took its name from the Weiße Rose group formed in Germany in 1943 to provide non-violent resistance to the Nazi party
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The museum has said that the man stuck elsewhere in the village too.
The curator, Peter Fox, said in a Facebook post that the museum was 'rather concerned' about the cyclist's actions and that he 'certainly struck at one more location'.
The employee at the museum who first discovered the poster on Sunday said that she had quite the job getting it off.
She also said that she couldn't remember the exact wording on the poster because she "just wanted to get rid of it".
Other than than the mystery cyclist, the museum has faced no other opposition to its face mask policy.
"Everybody is fine with it," the employee said.
"We've actually had people come in because they feel safe," she said.
The museum has taken to Facebook in an effort to track down the man.
"As a registered charity and community resource for many years we still do not understand why this gentlemen would target us.
"We just hope the gentlemen does contact us by email and enters into a grown up confidential discussion about his issues," the museum said.
The post also said that the man 'might like to finish removing the glue'.
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