Wax Mozart’s head stolen from museum

? Thieves snatched the head of a life-size Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wax figure from a Salzburg museum, police said Saturday.

The figure of the composer was on display at “Next to Mozart,” a multimedia museum that opened last year. The wax head has an estimated value of $18,427, but museum employees told Austria Press Agency the work was truly unique – and appealed for the thieves to return it.

“It must have happened between 8 p.m. Friday, when we closed, and today before 9 a.m.,” museum employee Elisabeth Stoeckl told APA. “When we opened up again, Mozart’s head was gone.”

The Mozart figure was on the museum’s fourth floor.