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The Kunstmuseum Bern Theft
A loss from Switzerland's oldest art museum
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The Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland's oldest art museum, has figured in the record of European gallery thefts. This entry gathers what is documented about the loss.
Bern's museum holds a deep collection spanning eight centuries, later famous as the institution named heir to part of the Gurlitt hoard. Its security history, like that of many mid-sized European museums, includes theft.
(Placeholder entry — details to be verified and expanded as the archive grows.)