Lilli Hollein, MAK basic director, mentioned “the theft of a extremely beneficial piece of jewelry… has hit us exhausting”.
She mentioned in an announcement that MAK had developed a safety plan with Van Cleef & Arpels particularly for the exhibition, including: “Safety points had been taken very severely and all safety measures had been fastidiously ready.”
Hollein mentioned employees had reacted calmly and adopted the established procedures when the “armed incident” occurred, and that nobody had been injured.
She added that MAK had totally reviewed its safety measures forward of the exhibition, “significantly in gentle of the incidents at main museums in recent times”.
Additionally on Thursday was probably the most essential troves of prehistoric jewelry and artefacts was stolen from a Spanish museum.
4 Renaissance work had been stolen from a museum in Sicily earlier this month, whereas three work by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse price hundreds of thousands of euros had been taken from a museum in Parma earlier within the yr.
These heists got here after the brazen daylight raid on the Louvre in Paris, by which a masked gang stole priceless jewels final October.
