Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Exploit works on museum to steal 45 historical pieces – Reason

          

jumped the wall that separates the area from the Museum of Fine Arts San Pio V of Valencia Gardens Nurseries Monday morning, waited for the guard made his last round and away to use the same equipment used for the redevelopment of the campus to break the lock on the warehouse door that gives the pavilion Benlliure.

Once inside destroyed three display cases and took the 45 pieces of historical value and wood carvings, commemorative coins, 37 brass commemorative medals associations and educational merits three wooden sculptures of the school of the eighteenth century Ignacio Vergara (a Christ, a foot and a palm with floral motifs), an cincuentín Silver reign of Juan Carlos I three rosaries wood and a gun in the early twentieth century useless to shoot and they were part of one of the most important art galleries in Spain.

According to the Ministry of Culture no images exist because theft previous managers decided to disconnect the surveillance camera focused access store at the start of the extension works. Police started investigations to find the thieves through found footprints and hope to recover stolen in some trace or seek to sell to an antique objects.

“It is a museum vulnerable, thieves have accessed directly from the warehouse door and we have pictures, “said the Regional Secretary for Culture, Alberto Girona, which appeared accompanied by the general director, Carmen Amoraga.

The renowned Fine Arts Museum of Valencia keeps collection of his major pieces, such as tables and Gothic paintings, paintings by Goya, Velázquez and Sorolla among others, under the Ministry of Culture and its management by the Government, which refers to the direction of St. Pius V.

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