Massive Art Heist Hits Oakland Museum of California, More Than 1,000 Items Stolen

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/30/massive-art-heist-hits-oakland-museum-of-california-more-than-1-000-items-stolen/One of the biggest California art thefts in years went down at a warehouse for the Oakland Museum of California, and now the FBI is involved, as thieves pilfered more than 1,000 artifacts and works of art in a 3:30 am heist this month. The fine art world was shocked on the morning of Sunday, October 19, when art thieves pulled off a heist at the Louvre, and rather brazenly did so in broad daylight when the museum was open. Little did we know here in the Bay Area that four days earlier, something similar had just happened to the Oakland Museum of California, located two blocks north of the Lake Merritt BART station.   KRON4 reports that thieve