Easter Theft at Villa Giulia, Rome: Roundup of information published in English

Almost one week after the Easter theft of unidentified pieces from the Castellani jewellery collection at the Villa Giulia, what details hav...

Theft at the Villa Giulia, Rome: Background on the The Jewellery in the Augusto Castellani Collection

The Castellani Collection is located on the site plan in the dark green (one half circle and  another rectangle) above the entrance. by Cath...

Theft at the Villa Giulia, Rome: Thieves distracted guards with smoke bombs to gain access to Etruscan Museum to steal 19th century jewelry

Castellani brooch ( Talking Jewelry ) ARCA Lecturer Derek Fincham has written of Saturday's robbery of the Villa Giulia in Rome on his ...

Novi Sad City Museum welcomes home "The old man with the fur cap" -- but did Serbian police recover a Rembrandt painting?

The Novi Sad City Museum welcomes home "The old man with the fur cap" This week did Serbian police recover a painting by Rembrandt...

Portrait of a Museum Theft Case: The 2007 Robbery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice

Jan Brueghel the Elder's  "Allegorie de la terre" by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Last night after lo...

Portrait of a Museum Robbery: The 1998 Theft of Tissot's "Still on Top" from the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

At ten minutes past 11 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, August 9th, 1998, a man with a shotgun entered the Auckland Art Gallery, threat...

Theft Anniversary: Two artifacts (Assyrian and Roman) stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art last year

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Last year on October 26, someone stole two ancient sculptures from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.  ...

Boston Globe: FBI plans public awareness campaign aimed at recovering paintings stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief I am always curious when a new article is published more than two decades after the world...

Reuters: "Poussin among stolen art found in Corsica carpark"

Fesch Palais, Corsica Reuters reported May 5th that the four paintings stolen from the Fesch museum in Corsica more than one year ago have ...

Bonne Année: Museum Theft in Greece Ends Holiday Weekend

Picasso's Woman's Head by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Reports from Istanbul bumped by museum theft in Gree...

From Poaching to Theft: The Recent “Trend” of Rhino Horn Thefts in Europe

by Kirsten Hower, ARCA Blog Contributor When thinking of museum thefts, what first comes to mind of what might be stolen? Painting, smaller...