Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

This guide to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna reconstructs the night in May 2003 when Cellini's golden Saliera, a salt cellar made for the king of France in the 1540s, vanished from behind glass while scaffolding covered the building for renovations. It follows the unlikely thief, an ordinary man out drinking who remembered a security gap from a tour weeks earlier, and the years the piece spent missing afterward. Look closely at the sea god and earth goddess reclining together on its surface as you pass.