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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
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Monday, May 6th, 2013
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Saturday, May 4th, 2013
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Does your museum have a media strategy for thefts?
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/museum-thefts/16042013-does-your-museum-have-a-media-strategy-in-case-of-theft
April 17, 2013
Having a media strategy in place in case of theft is key to managing your museum’s reputation, and can help recover stolen items, according to the expert panel on the Museum Practice security webchat last week.William Brown, national security adviser at Arts Council England, recommended ...
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Sin pistas del robo al Museo Histórico - Diario EL PAIS - Montevideo - Uruguay
http://www.elpais.com.uy/120109/pnacio-617475/nacional/sin-pistas-del-robo-al-museo-historico/
January 10, 2012
PAYSANDÚ | SANDRA KANOVICH
El intendente de Paysandú, Bertil Bentos, que ordenó una investigación interna para deslindar responsabilidades en el hurto de la pistola que perteneciera a Juan Antonio Lavalleja. Bentos informó que se reunió ...
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Paintings 'Must Be Returned' to Fenway, Says US Attorney - Fenway-Kenmore, MA Patch
http://fenwaykenmore.patch.com/articles/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-paintings-must-be-returned-to-fenway-says-fbi
March 19, 2013
By Sara Jacobi Email the author March 18, 2013
FBI officials announced on Monday they know who committed one of the biggest art heists in history, but they still need the public's help to ...
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
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Friday, April 5th, 2013
Theft at Villa Giulia, Rome: Another European Museum Hit by Thieves
http://art-crime.blogspot.nl/2013/04/theft-at-villa-giulia-rome-another.html?m=1
April 5, 2013
Catherine Schofield Sezgin
by Lynda Albertson, CEO, Association of Research into Crimes against Art
ROME - In the last thirteen months several museums in Europe have been hit with dramatic thefts.
In February 2012, two men stormed the Archeological Museum of ...
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Friday, April 5th, 2013
Roban un museo de Rio de Janeiro en pleno día
http://vidayestilo.terra.com.pe/turismo/roban-un-museo-de-rio-de-janeiro-en-pleno-dia,542cb7fbb44dd310VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html
April 5, 2013
Un bolígrafo de oro en forma de pluma de pájaro incrustada con diamantes, que perteneció al expresidente brasileño Afonso Pena (1902-1906), fue robado en pleno día en un museo de Rio de Janeiro, informó el jueves la institución.
La obra ...
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Police investigate Etruscan Museum robbery
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/2002193/police-investigate-etruscan-museum-robbery.html
A police investigation is underway following the theft of some 19th-century jewellery from Rome's Villa Giulia Etruscan museum over the Easter weekend. The thieves gained entry after forcing open one of the entrance doors. They smashed two cabinets on the upper floor containing items from the important ...
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Italian government under fire after Rome museum theft
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/40993/Italian-government-under-fire-after-Rome-museum-theft.html
April 3, 2013
Rome
02/04/2013
'Spending cuts a threat to safety, heritage'
Rome, April 2 - A robbery over the Easter weekend at Rome's Villa Giulia Etruscan museum led to calls Tuesday for improved measures to secure Italy's culture ministry. "It took a multimillion (euro) theft to ...
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
Chainsaw thief hacks off Louis XIV elephant's tusk
http://www.france24.com/en/20130331-france-museum-theft-chainsaw-thief-louis-elephant-tusk
April 1, 2013
An intruder in the Paris Natural History Museum who sawed off a tusk of a skeleton of an African elephant given to French King Louis XIV was apprehended early on Saturday, according to French authorities.
The suspect, about 20 years old, had ...
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Criminal gangs target ivory in museums
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-03-30/criminal-gangs-target-ivory-in-museums/
March 31, 2013
9:17pm, Sat 30 Mar 2013Man 'tries to steal' museum tusk Last updated Sun 31 Mar 2013The damaged elephant skeleton at the Paris Natural History museums Credit: EBU
The attack on an elephant skeleton at the Paris Natural History Musuem is the latest in a series of ...
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Jongeman zaagt slagtand olifant met kettingzaag af in museum
30/03 IN DE RAND In Parijs is in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag een jongeman van 20 opgepakt nadat hij in een natuurhistorisch museum was binnengebroken om daar met een kettingzaag een slagtand van een olifant af te zagen. Volgens de politie heeft ...
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Was anyone watching the Gardner Museum watchman?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/03/09/guard-who-opened-the-door-robbers-notorious-gardner-museum-heist-under-suspicion-years-later/J9cyv9A0rRkJ1t0OYpwdvL/story.html
March 28, 2013
Night watchman Richard Abath may have made the most costly mistake in art history shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990. Police found him handcuffed and duct-taped in the basement of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum seven hours after he unwisely opened ...
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Halifax art dealer describes how Tillman allegedly stole artifacts
http://globalnews.ca/news/433944/halifax-art-dealer-describes-how-tillman-allegedly-stole-artifacts/
March 28, 2013
Christine Tam
New details have been uncovered about a Halifax man suspected of stealing a million dollars worth of artifacts.
Until now, little has been known about John Tillman’s alleged activities as a self-proclaimed art dealer.
RCMP allege Tillman spent decades stealing a trove of ...
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
MATT CONNOLLY: Isabella Stewart Gardner back in the headlines
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/cops_and_courts/x1522344722/MATT-CONNOLLY-Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-back-in-the-headlines
March 26, 2013
"Landscape with an Obelisk," 1638, one of 13 works of art stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
I suppose in a contest it'd be a close call as to who is more infamous, Whitey Bulger or those who ...
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Observers, investigators say now is time to find Gardner art before it is lost - Metro - The Boston Globe
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/24/observers-investigators-say-now-time-find-gardner-art-before-lost/Z4HQc74zz6ek7QWOcZvNsO/story.html
March 26, 2013
By Milton J. Valencia , Shelley Murphy and Stephen Kurkjian | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent March 25, 2013
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/AP/File
"The Storm on the Sea of ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
Rhino heads removed from Elgin Museum to Edinburgh amid theft fears | News | Edinburgh | STV
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/218900-rhino-heads-removed-from-elgin-museum-to-edinburgh-amid-theft-fears/
March 25, 2013
Rhino head: The items have been moved to Edinburgh.SWNS
A museum has been forced to surrender a pair of rhino heads worth £400,000 amid fears they would be targeted by ruthless armed gangs.
The ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
Stolen dinosaur uncovered in Page home
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/stolen-dinosaur-uncovered-in-page-home-20130325-2gq3u.html
March 25, 2013
Police have recovered the dinosaur stolen from a Canberra museum
A prehistoric mystery was solved in Canberra on Monday as a three metre long dinosaur statue was recovered by ACT Police.
The three-day hunt for the missing statue, stolen from Canberra's National Dinosaur Museum late ...
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
De Kunsthal, het Catharijne Convent, Huis Doorn, het Stedelijk Museum Zutphen, Museum Bommel van Dam…einde van de lijst nog niet in zicht
http://www.museumbeveiliging.com/2013/03/22/de-kunsthal-het-catharijne-convent-het-stedelijk-museum-zutphen-museum-bommel-van-dam-einde-van-de-lijst-nog-niet-in-zicht/
March 22, 2013
22/03/2013 – 11:20
De Kunsthal, het Catharijne Convent, Huis Doorn, het Stedelijk Museum Zutphen, Museum Bommel van Dam…vier geslachtofferde Nederlandse musea binnen een half jaar en het einde ...
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
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Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The Theft of a Century 3/21/13
Jonathan Sazonoff of Museum Security Network tells us about the theft of the century. Why missing art may be overvalued in the headlines today.
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http://tinyurl.com/bqa6tvm
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