Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia
Former seminary galleries of Old Masters, once burgled by thieves slipping in next door.
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This guide to the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia opens before dawn on a Monday in August 2015, when forty-five objects disappeared from the museum's storage while it sat mid-renovation, taken through a neighboring building under construction. It follows the investigation that turned up an almost identical theft from 2001, and a museum caught without a permanent director as police worked the case downstairs. The stolen pieces came from storage rooms tucked behind the galleries where Velazquez, Goya and El Greco hang.
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