More than 1,000 items, many of them indigenous historical artifacts, were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California on Oct. 15. Thieves broke into an offsite storage facility. The Oakland heist ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police in California are investigating the theft of more than 1,000 items from a museum’s collection including metalwork jewelry, Native American baskets and everyday items like ...

From hands-on art making at the Museum of Children’s Art to learning about California history at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland museums have played an integral part in many Bay Area ...

The Oakland Police Department announced Wednesday that it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate a burglary from the Oakland Museum of California’s storage facility two weeks ago.

The Oakland Museum of California was a victim of an early-morning heist of one of its storage facilities earlier this month. (Gabrielle Lurie / San Francisco Chronicle / Associated Press) A thief or ...

The thieves that broke into a storage facility belonging to the Oakland Museum of California did so without necessarily knowing they were stealing historical artifacts, according to museum officials.