Bettina Schindler, who was born and raised in Austria by a German mother and a Swiss father, was told that the results of a school aptitude test indicated that she would make a good art restorer. While most of her classmates did not follow the test's advice, Bettina did. At the age of 20, she moved from Innsbruck to Vienna to volunteer at the Belvedere Museum to restore medieval and baroque paintings, which she later learned used obsolete techniques that might have done more damage than good. She was there for a couple of years before an opportunity arose that changed her life.
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