museum theft
Gallery robbery overnight
Museum theft is the crime of stealing art, artifacts, or other valuable objects from a museum.
High-profile cases often involve famous paintings or antiquities, and the works may be held for ransom, sold to private collectors, or disappear for decades: The museum theft remained unsolved for forty years.
The term also covers insider theft by staff with access.
- heistOrganized large-scale theft
- art heistStealing valuable artworks
- stolenTaken unlawfully
- artHuman creative expression
- paintingPigment on canvas
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- theftstealing, larceny, steal, burglary, robbery
- plunderlooting, loot, booty, pillaging, spoils
- art crimeart crime, stolen art, art forgery, art fraud, stolen paintings
- cultural erasurecultural genocide, ethnocide, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, identity loss
- heritage crimesart fraud, art forgery, tomb robbery, stolen paintings, plundered art