Over 1,000 Artifacts Stolen from Oakland Museum of California

• Summary • Oakland Museum of California was hit with a massive heist earlier this month • Stolen items include jewelry, precious metals, Native American artworks and artifacts and daguerreotypes • No arrests have been made in connection with the crime

While the recent Louvre break-in took Europe, and the world, by storm, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) suffered a heist of its own, after thieves made off with over 1,000 artifacts from their collection earlier this month.

First reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the burglary unfolded at around 3:30 a.m. on October 16, when a thief, or thieves, broke into the museum’s 100,000-square-foot, off-site storage facility, and left with a hoard of jewelry, precious metals and gems, daguerreotypes, Native American baskets and to