# Thieves broke into Paris’s Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth 12.3-million in the latest of a series of robberies from cultural institutions. Famed for its dinosaur skeletons and taxidermy, the museum also houses a geology and mineralogy gallery. A break-in was detected on Tuesday morning, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into the riverside complex that is popular with Parisians and tourists. The theft concerns several specimens of native gold from the national collections held by the museum.
Thieves steal gold worth R12.3-million from Paris’s Natural History Museum