As is known, on Sunday, October 19, eight priceless 19th-century jewels were stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Radar Armenia presents the thefts from famous museums around the world over the years.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1972
18 paintings, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Courbet, were stolen, along with 40 pieces of jewelry and other valuable objects. The stolen works, estimated at $ 2 million, have not been found.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, 1990
13 paintings were stolen, including works by Vermeer, Degas, and Rembrandt. The stolen works, worth half a billion dollars, have not been recovered to this day, despite a $10 million reward offered in 2017.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1991
20 paintings were stolen, including "The Potato Eaters." They were found half an hour later, abandoned in a car, but three paintings were damaged. In 2002, two more paintings, "Exit from the Church of Nuenen" and "Sea View of Scheveningen (Storm)," were stolen and found 16 years later in Italy.
Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2003
Benvenuto Cellini's gold sculpture "Saliera" was stolen. It was found three years later, buried in a box in the forest.
Munch Museum, Oslo, 2004
The paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" were stolen. They were found two years later, damaged.
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 2010
Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani, and Léger, worth €100 million, were stolen. The thief, Vieran Tomic, took advantage of a security system glitch. The paintings were never recovered.
Dresden's Green Arch Museum, 2019
18th-century jewelry was stolen, including the 49-carat "Saxony White Diamond." The thieves were convicted in 2023 and partially returned the stolen goods.
Singer Laren Museum, Netherlands, 2020
Van Gogh's "The Parson's Garden in Spring" was stolen. It was found in 2023 in an IKEA bag, wrapped in bubble wrap.
Prepared by Arman Galoyan
