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Msn Nat Conf March2009

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Page 1: Msn Nat Conf March2009

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Follow-up to:

… and the curator did it

Page 2: Msn Nat Conf March2009

Inside jobs

• FBI National Stolen Art File:~80% of resolved thefts inside jobs

• Theft abusing a position of trust– given for the purpose of work– given for the purpose of research

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Inside helpe.g.

• 1991 robbery

Van Gogh Museumthe Netherlands

• 2002/3 antiquities smuggling

Supreme Council of AntiquitiesEgypt

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Access for work

• Employees• Contract workers

• Employees of contractors

• Art transportation/ storage

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Access for research

• Students• Scholars• Private researchers• Collectors• Dealers• Etc.

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Motivations

• Building private collection• Revenge• Statement• Removing critical data• Uncontrollable urge to steal• Opportunistic theft• Financial value• ...

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Objects used for decoration

• Missing objects from national collections

• City Hall Safed, Israel

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Hiding insider involvement

• Georgia O'Keeffe museum

• New Mexico Museum of Art

• Church institution, the Netherlands

• But mostly silently smuggled away

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Hiding thefts

Uşak museum,Turkey

Radya Pustaka museumIndonesia

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Inside jobs

• Serious threat

• Protection is combined effort of security and collection department

• Collected articles about insider thefts:

www.museum-security.org/?cat=14

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