Showing posts with label museum theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum theft. Show all posts
March 17, 2024

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Marks 34th Anniversary of Infamous Art Theft

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Self-Portrait – Rembrandt van Rijn As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum prepares to mark the 34th anniversary of of one of the most infamo...
March 8, 2024

Museum Theft: One million euros worth of jewellery stolen from a temporary exhibit at the Vittoriale degli Italiani Museum in Italy

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Forty-nine jewellery pieces, created by twentieth century sculptor, painter, and Italian partisan, Umberto Mastroianni have disappeared duri...
September 12, 2023

Vincent Van Gogh's stolen painting, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, has been recovered.

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After extensive work on the part of the Dutch National Police and a private investigator, authorities have announced that Vincent Van Gogh&#...
August 29, 2023

Insider threats in museums, not as rare as you think.

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   Many articles discussing the recently announced thefts at the British Museum in London have emphasised the rarity of insider threats at m...
February 13, 2023

Burglars strike the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden

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According to the Dutch Politie, in today's early morning hours, around 3:45 am an alarm sounded which alerted them that, a burglar or bu...
February 1, 2023

Ukraine very own, "Arsène Lupin" is sentenced to five years in French prison

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In 2018 a painting Le Port de La Rochelle by French Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac was stolen from the Musée de Beaux-Arts in the ci...
January 22, 2023

Four confessions to a museum burglary all started with a photo of the Green Diamond

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This month, has proved an interesting month in the ongoing trial of six burglars, believed to be responsible for the theft of 18th-century j...
December 17, 2022

Recovered: (Some) of the Jewels Stolen in the November 25, 2019 Green Vault Burglary at Dresden's Residenzschloss.

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On 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dresden Castle in Saxony, Germany and smashed...
May 3, 2022

Justice rendered in the attempted theft of Claude Monet's De Voorzaan en de Westerhem from the Zaans Museum

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Forty-nine year old, repeat art napper, Henk Bieslijn has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for the broad daylight f...
September 27, 2021

Three convictions and one acquittal, the number of museum thefts Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been charged with.

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Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Lelystad court in the Netherlands for the theft of two artworks: Vi...
September 22, 2021

How many bags of cocaine could a Monet buy?

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Back this summer shots were fired by one of two suspects fleeing the scene of an attempted theft of Claude Monet's painting De Voorzaan...