Die größten Museumsdiebstähle Europas
Von quindiassomigli
Die größten Museumsdiebstähle Europas
Von quindiassomigli
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How many were subsequently recovered?
It is missing the theft of the Pink Panther diamond.
Nothing about the ancient gold artifacts from Romania stolen from a Dutch museum just like a few months or 1 year ago? 👀
People who steal from museums are scum. I hope they all suffer.
There was a high profile theft in Sweden 2018. The thieves stole a kings burial relics worth 65 mil sek. They were recovered later all smashed up, but were restored and is back on display in Strängnäs Cathedral.
Waiting for the joke about the British Museum being the their of the world museum
In 2004 another version of The Scream was stolen.
Also earlier this year in january the golden helmet of Coțofenești and several golden Dacian armbracelets were stolen from a museum in The Netherlands, I’d assume that a 5.8 million euro pricetag would make it suitable for this map.
The Balkans are safe. We export the people who take action, not the places.
Denmark has the theft of Guldhornene (golden horns) in 1802 and the theft of their copies in 2007.
You left out the Nazi looting in WW2
2017 Berlin, Big Maple Leaf (100 kg gold coin)
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*post-1945
How can have one country three biggest thefts?
Still missing the theft of art by the nazi’s 1939-1945…. after that the art that went missing stolen by the allies 1944-45…..
By value the Amsterdam theft of the van Goghs is probably the biggest estimated at approximately 500 million € (1 billion Dfl) at that time. Those were recovered a few hours later.
Can we rewind another 400 years and show where all these loot were actually looted from?
I wonder how many of these art/historical pieces are displayed in autocrat or drug boss mansions currently.
You are missing the 27M EUR Rembrandt/Bellini heist in Denmark 1999.
Where is the biggest gold coin in the world that was robbed from the Bode museum in Berlin?
Where can they even sell it, who would buy something they can’t show
Prague, 1648, Swedish stealing everything in the Castle’s art collection that wasn’t (well, even if it was) nailed down.
I though it would be the greatest thefts by museums, but at this scale the map would be too full I guess
Biggest thefts of art from polish museums were made by Germans and Russians during WWII. And Swedish invasion on Poland in 1660-1665
My apologies. It’s fact. In the past my country France stole a lot of things from others civilization.
Who buys that stuff? No legitimate source since everyone knows it’s stolen.
Does it end up in some Palace of an African Warlord? Private collection of an Saudi? Cartel Boss? Or can they essentially ransom it back to the museum?
You can steal all kinds of things and fence it later. But a famous painting or someone’s Crown? Those are not exactly Items that people forget about after a while.
So what’s the end game of robbing museums of priceless, world famous artifacts that are extremely valuable and very well known to anyone interested?
There are none in Spain because those who want to steal just become politicians, no need to risk it steaking from a museum.