Msn Nat Conf March2009
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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
Inside helpe.g.
• 1991 robbery
Van Gogh Museumthe Netherlands
• 2002/3 antiquities smuggling
Supreme Council of AntiquitiesEgypt
Access for work
• Employees• Contract workers
• Employees of contractors
• Art transportation/ storage
Access for research
• Students• Scholars• Private researchers• Collectors• Dealers• Etc.
Motivations
• Building private collection• Revenge• Statement• Removing critical data• Uncontrollable urge to steal• Opportunistic theft• Financial value• ...
Objects used for decoration
• Missing objects from national collections
• City Hall Safed, Israel
Hiding insider involvement
• Georgia O'Keeffe museum
• New Mexico Museum of Art
• Church institution, the Netherlands
• But mostly silently smuggled away
Hiding thefts
Uşak museum,Turkey
Radya Pustaka museumIndonesia
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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