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Starting: Mon Oct 1 17:25:59 CEST 2007
Ending: Wed Oct 31 17:24:43 CET 2007
Messages: 256

• [MSN] Italian police investigate book thief, recover dozens of items. An Italian man disguised as a priest and prepared to lock himself in a bathroom for a day managed to sneak away with dozens of 300-year-old books, drawings and watercolors from top libraries and public archives in Rome. The items were sold in Italy and abroad, particularly in France. The investigation is now aimed at tracing other trafficking channels.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] L'horlogerie suisse devient la nouvelle cible des malfrats. Depuis cet été, pas moins de quatre sociétés prestigieuses ont été victimes de vols crapuleux en Suisse romande. Enquête sur un phénomène en recrudescence qui suscite de plus en plus d'inquiétude.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Looting of Iraq's heritage described. Former Baghdad museum official speaks at Bowers about invaluable artifacts lost to war.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Gerrit Dou's Astronomer by Candlelight is familiar to any fan of 17th-century Dutch masters. But if a recent claim by heirs to one of the most prominent World War II-era Dutch art dealers succeeds, Dou's painting will be taken from Leiden's De Lakenhal Museum and returned to the family of Nathan Katz. In all, Katz' four children are claiming 225 paintings and two tapestries from museums and institutions throughout the Netherlands.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] On Friday, Yale agreed to return to Peru a collection of artifacts that Hiram Bingham III took in 1912. Under the terms of a preliminary accord, Peru would gain title to more than 350 museum-quality objects. The agreement provides for a jointly sponsored international exhibit, proceeds from which will help build a museum for the artifacts in Cuzco, near the site in Peru where the antiquities were excavated. Yale also committed to funding a program of scholarly exchanges for three years.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] FW: Art theft recovery and investigation-careers advice   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] job opening : CHIEF OF SECURITY CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] LEADING Tasmanian sculptor Stephen Walker is shattered by the theft of four sculptures worth as much as $70, 000.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Disgusting story about Stephane Breitwieser (responsible for millions of Euros damage to museum objects) offering his service to improve museum security (German language report)   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Argentina. El insólito hallazgo de dos Berni. La pintura doble fue robada en 1983 y la descubrieron cuando iba a ser subastada   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Malasia.- Roban una antigua estatua de Buda y los monjes dicen a sus fieles que se ha ido de vacaciones   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Deliberately set fire destroys several museum artifacts. RCMP are investigating a deliberately set fire in Melfort that spread to the town's museum, destroying several historical artifacts.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] DUBLIN, Ireland-An Irish museum was formally cleared Friday of claims that its founders were Nazi spies who bought art works from dealers trafficking in items stolen from Jews. U.S. expert condemns Simon Wiesenthal Center's Nazi loot claims.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Tale of those who recovered European art a masterpiece   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] NANCY, France: A Frenchman went on trial Monday charged with stealing chandeliers, a prized 16th century statue and other relics from churches in eastern France, with some later shipped to the United States or put up for sale on auction site eBay.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] How Iraq's treasures were lost. Former Baghdad museum official speaks at Bowers about invaluable artifacts lost to war.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] ROME: Italian man who sometimes disguised himself as a priest managed to sneak away with dozens of 300-year-old books, drawings and watercolors from top libraries and public archives in Rome, authorities said Monday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] WEIMAR, Germany (AP) - Thousands of restored books returned Monday to the shelves of a newly renovated historic library in eastern Germany that was gutted by a fire more than three years ago.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] FW: ART LOSS REGISTER THEFT ALERT: http://www.museum-security.org/art_loss_theft_alert_october_2007.htm   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] FW: Program on Immunity of Foreign Cultural Property from Suit in the United States   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Student enters plea on theft on Berkeley Nobel Prize medal   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Benin chief seeks inquest on stolen $100m artefacts   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Museum theft. Ende August 2007 wurden aus dem Schloss Rosenburg im Bezirk Horn aus dem Waffensaal 4 Pulverhörner, ein Schwert und ein Gewehr gestohlen. Diese Kulturgüter dürften während der Öffnungszeiten des Schlosses gestohlen worden sein.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Four prized artifacts from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California returned to Italy on Tuesday, the first of 40 works to be handed over by the Getty as a result of Italy's efforts to recover antiquities it says were looted and sold to museums.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Boca Raton, Fla., Auction Gallery Owner Charged With Defrauding Consignors   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] (no subject)   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Comment protéger les églises de la recrudescence des vols   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New York arrest puts spotlight on counterfeiting of Gibson guitars   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Recuperata dai carabinieri un'importante scultura proveniente dalla Villa del Casale di Piazza Armerina.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Top officials at Newsday drilled into a safe at the paper's Melville offices yesterday and found three gold Pulitzer Prize medals missing, prompting an investigation by Suffolk police.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] museum theft. Antique Crock Stolen From Oyster Bay, N.Y. Museum   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Canada. Fire destroys building, museum artifacts   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Italy's presidential palace will host an exhibit of 40 antiquities the J. Paul Getty Museum is returning as Rome reclaims treasures it says were looted from Italian territory, officials said Wednesday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Smithsonian--'Nations Attic'--Leaking Badly   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Swaddled in white drop cloths, hundreds of sculptural masterpieces from the Acropolis are waiting to be delicately lifted by crane to a glass and concrete museum nearing completion at the foot of the ancient citadel.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Da Vinci   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] 'Bomb threat' at Maier Museum spurs apology by police chief. Lynchburg Police Chief Charles Bennett said Wednesday that his officers should not have told onlookers that there was a bomb threat at the Maier Museum on Monday in order to evacuate the area.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] College's artful move seems more like a targeted heist. In the old days, art thieves would sneak into a museum after hours, hold the director at bay, then back up a truck and abscond with the treasures.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Using documents to gauge smuggled antiquities. Raymond Fishman and Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University noticed a huge discrepancy in paperwork on shipped antiquities such as statues and mosaics depending on where it was filed.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Arrests after da Vinci work found. A police raid in Glasgow has recovered a Leonardo da Vinci painting stolen more than four years ago.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] David Gill: From Malibu to Rome: implications for Shelby White.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Is the Art Loss Register (ALR) useful when it comes to preventing the emergence of recently looted antiquities? I have been collecting and discussing a range of views and comments on the subject and it seems to be an appropriate moment to take stock.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] REWARD NOTICE Marc Chagall   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Madonna with the yarnwinder recovered one month after death of its owner, the Duke of Buccleuch.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Lawyer (acting as a go-between ) arrested as Leonardo da Vinci's stolen Madonna of the Yarnwinder painting is found by police. In total three men arrested.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Bakersfield. Northeast Residents Outraged Over Vandalized Library.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Manhattan dealer Edward Merrin was sentenced on 17 September in a federal case that charged him and his son Samuel Merrin with defrauding their clients William Ziff and his wife out of millions of dollars. The case against Samuel Merrin continues.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Need Information about Museum Fire Protection?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] After nine years of lies, deception and intrigue, a rare book was returned to the Menno Simons Historical Library this fall.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Instrumenten gestolen uit Bimhuis. Het gaat om twee violen en strijkstokken van violist Peter Brunt. Een van de violen, een Vuillaume, is ruim 100.000 euro waard. Ook werden twee Buffet Crampon klarinetten van klarinettist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer ontvreemd.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Reunión bilateral entre Perú y Bolivia para evitar tráfico de bienes culturales en Puno   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Dresden Gemany. Unbekannte haben am späten Donnerstag Nachmittag zwei Zeichnungen aus einem Kunstgeschäft am Neumarkt gestohlen.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Stolen art may be rediscovered using a variety of means - stumbled upon when criminals try to sell it, tracked down by police or furtively exchanged for reward money. But usually it is not returned at all.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A third church in Southbury has been victimized by what may be a serial painting snatcher.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] WINNIPEG - The alleged boss of a sophisticated international crime ring who is accused of theft, fraud and possessing a priceless pearl and diamond heirloom appears to have struck a deal with Crown prosecutors.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] La tela rubata torna a casa dopo 16 anni   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] book review. Cómo robar un cuadro   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The Museum World's Italian Sheriff. Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has swaggered into the genteel world of antiquities like a new sheriff in town.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The Duke of Buccleuch says it will be like a 'family member returning home' when they get the da Vinci back.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] U.K. THIEVES who stole a block of stone thinking it was a rare ichthyosaur fossil are in for a big surprise.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] NICOSIA, Cyprus: Cypriot police seized ancient gold and other artifacts dating up to 3, 000 years back and arrested six suspected smugglers in a sting operation Friday, authorities said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] British university forced to return 'looted' Iraq treasure. One of Britain's leading universities is embroiled in an embarrassing row over hundreds of treasures looted from Iraq.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Book review. Dark side of bibliomania. The Book Thief is a fascinating tale of the theft of rare books and manuscripts and the thief's eventual capture and trial.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] USA-Peru-Yale. How Bingham got Yale into trouble.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Las autoridades rumanas han detenido en Iasi, en el noreste de Rumanía, a tres personas por traficar con obras de arte de Salvador Dalí, Juan Ismael y Félix Tabasco, robadas de colecciones privadas en España.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Russia has approved the return to Germany the last of a set of 14th century stained glassed window panels taken from a church by the Red Army at the end of World War II, the government said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Famous Monet painting vandalized in Paris. Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil, '' the French Culture Minister said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] tableau de Monet endommagé après une effraction au musée d'Orsay. Le musée d'Orsay n'était pas ouvert pendant la Nuit Blanche. Les auteurs de la dégradation sont entrés par effraction en réussissant à ouvrir une porte donnant sur la rue. L'alarme s'est aussitôt déclenchée.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Photo of vandalized Monet painting Le Pont d'Argenteuil   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Swiss dinosaur footprint stolen. Swiss daily Quotidien Jurassien has stated that the print could fetch tens of thousands of Swiss dollars on the black market.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Stealing From the Incas.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Spektakulaerer Schmuckraub bei Winston in Paris   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Weighed down by the burden of restoring and protecting hundreds of crumbling archaeological and cultural sites, the cash-strapped Italian government has resorted to a direct appeal to Italians for contributions through a three-day TV telethon.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Detienen a tres rumanos por traficar con obras de Dalí, Ismael y Tabasco   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Call for tougher penalties for art vandals. The French Culture Minster has called for stronger sanctions against those who desecrate cultural sites and works of art after intruders broke in to the Musee d'Orsay and damaged a work by the impressionist painter Claude Monet.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Francia debería imponer sanciones más duras a los que realizan actos vandálicos contra obras de arte, dijo el lunes la ministra francesa de Cultura después de que unos intrusos entrasen este fin de semana en un museo de París e hicieran un agujero en un preciado cuadro impresionista.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Un anticuario australiano pagó 40.000 dólares por dos mapamundis robados en la Biblioteca Nacional   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] El FBI rescata en Nueva York un mapa robado en la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El autor de las sustracciones se apoderó de 12 páginas que contienen 19 valiosos grabados   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Woman tried for kissing Twombly painting   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] 4.500 euros d'amende requis contre Rindy Sam. La jeune femme est poursuivie pour avoir embrassé une toile blanche de Cy Twombly. Le peintre et le propriétaire de l'oeuvre se sont portés parties civiles, pour "dégradation d'œuvre d'art".   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] South Canterbury is off the radar of looters targeting precious fossil beds around New Zealand.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] US. Three men pleaded not guilty Tuesday in connection with the heist of several valuable paintings from a Quiogue mansion, which was subsequently burned down to cover up the theft, prosecutors said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New Zealand. Call for action on fossil looters. "At the moment, the Antiquities Act is very loose. You can export just about anything and you'll be fined only about $250"   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Chinese scoop up looted Qing treasures in auction   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] U.K. A blind elderly widow has been left devastated after thieves stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of rare antiques and paintings from her home, police said yesterday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A Massachusetts woman has been arrested on charges that she sold a phony Milton Avery painting that ended up in a New York gallery.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New Zealand. Five bronze sculptures have been stolen by thieves who used bolt cutters to break into the Wintergardens Fernery in the Auckland Domain.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Three men pleaded not guilty Tuesday in connection with the heist of several valuable paintings from a Quiogue mansion, which was subsequently burned down to cover up the theft, prosecutors said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] U.K. Thieves threw a granite block through the window of a Mousehole art gallery before reaching in and stealing two paintings each valued at UKP 500.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Art heist targets Linfield.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] French police have made five arrests over an attack on a painting by Claude Monet in Paris   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Sweden. Gallery Vandals Destroy Photos. Video published on YouTube   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] France. After damage to Monet painting security in French museums is discussed: Quelle sécurité dans les musées?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Roumanie : halte au pillage des sites archeologiques,   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Spain. 25.000 euros por los mapamundi de la Biblioteca Nacional. La Guardia Civil aún no tiene los valiosos documentos robados el pasado agosto.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The sale of Chinese treasures looted from Qing palaces by foreign troops fetched record prices in Hong Kong Tuesday, given heavy bidding by Chinese buyers eager to repatriate such objects from the West.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A Montreal man who claims ownership of a signed oil painting by Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt that had been looted by the Nazis is vowing to press ahead in his effort to seek restitution for it.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] KAATSHEUVEL - Het kunstwerk dat in het Frederik Hendrikpark in Kaatsheuvel stond, is deze week gestolen. Het gaat om een bronzen figuur van 112 centimeter dat een vrouwspersoon met een zwierige jas uitbeeldt. Half onder de jas zit een kindje verscholen.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] more about the Cy Twombly painting kiss: One is art, one is vandalism - but which is which?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] SMU to host conference on the ethics of antiquity collecting.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] German. Arson at library. Feuer in der Pfarrbücherei von St. Ludgerus. Sachschaden wird auf mindestens 10 000 Euro geschätzt.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - Three men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to stealing paintings worth $500, 000 from a Hamptons estate and burning down the mansion - and artworks worth another $1 million inside - to cover up the crime.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] SUFFOLK COUNTY- Westhampton caretaker charged with stealing valuable artwork from an east end estate and burning down the house to destroy evidence of his crime was arraigned Tuesday before State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle in Riverhead.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Netherlands. Het Nationaal Archief is bijna 1.300 stukken kwijt. Het betreft stukken die in 1997 waren gestolen. Na de arrestatie van de dief zijn ze in 2003 weer aan het archief zijn overgedragen. Nu blijken ze onvindbaar te zijn.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Oregon. For artist, theft is a loss of self. Stolen - Tamera Bremer's rug, a nude self-portrait, vanishes from a Linfield exhibit, and she's upset.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Art History Professor Carol Damian, recently helped the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Broward County Sheriff's Office identify Peruvian artifacts smuggled into the United States.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Roban arte sacro en iglesia de Honduras   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Guilty verdict in art theft. Police foiled heist from Carmel gallery in May.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] MADRID - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has located an ancient world map stolen from Spain's National Library along with other extremely valuable documents in August, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] No leads in brazen $28 million Paris jewelry heist   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Officer won't be charged in Maier Museum bomb threat incident.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A former accounting and human resources assistant at the Arizona Memorial has pleaded guilty to stealing $170, 000 from the non-profit museum which supports the free memorial.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Seattle. Tangle of deception remains as ex-art dealer faces prison.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] FW: Oscar White Muscarella to lead SAFE Tour at the Met   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Happy ending for looted Courbet painting in Paris exhibit.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Netherlands. Politie onderzoekt diefstal uit beeldentuin van een galerie in Weert.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Amsterdam. In 1988 gestolen boek duikt op in steeg.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Scotland. Musuem theft. A valuable picture of a flotilla of sailing ships has been stolen from the wall of a museum in Fife, police said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] URUGUAY. ¿Cómo previenen los incendios y robos los museos uruguayos?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Italy. CARABINIERI RECUPERANO QUADRI A GENOVA.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Australia. A cavalier frame of mind (about the Van Mieris theft).   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Theft sends art dealer to prison. For years, Kurt Lidtke quietly stole prominent artworks worth thousands of dollars from collectors who trusted him, by selling work they consigned at his Pioneer Square gallery and pocketing the money.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Nepal. Religious And Cultural Icons Need For Protection.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Guilty verdict in art theft. Police foiled heist from Carmel gallery in May.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] U.K. TWO abstract sculptures have been stolen from a Cambridge art studio.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] U.K. Work of art discovered in the bushes. A Glimpse Of Spring by Dutch artist Jacques Tange was recently discovered in the undergrowth and police are trying to trace the owner.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Mexico. Recupera policía judicial 140 obras de arte robadas en Edomex.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Spain. Un beso pone en evidencia la fragilidad del arte ante el amor y el odio desmedido (about kiss on Cy Twombly painting)   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Ecuador. Museum theft. Roban Custodia de Oro en Riobamba.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Germany. Polizei ermittelt Kunstdieb (about Christo theft in Dresden).   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] USA. Sculpture theft. Police believe the "Maryland, My Maryland" key was stolen from its concrete base in the 300 block of South Market Street early Sunday, though it was not reported until 10:50 a.m., according to the Frederick Police Department.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Gestolen Sterkselse beelden in Mierlose sloot gevonden   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Guyana. Museum theft. Guyane : vol de deux alambics centenaires dans un éco-musée.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Afghanistan struggles to preserve rich past despite ongoing war.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Athens. Historic move leaves place for Elgin Marbles.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Die Nacht, in der die Wiege der deutschen Klassik in Flammen aufgeht. Vor zwei Jahren vernichtete ein Feuer große Bestände der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar. Am 24. Oktober wird sie wiedereröffnet.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Amsterdam wil gestolen kunst terug.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] NEWBURYPORT - Larceny charges have been dropped against two men who originally claimed they found antique currency worth an estimated $720, 000 buried in a Methuen yard two years ago.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Afghanistan. The treasures of Turquoise Mountain. Canadian-funded plan aims at breathing new life into ancient culture.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Westfries museum ontsnapt aan ramp. Op de binnenplaats van het Westfries museum in Hoorn is zaterdagavond brand ontstaan. Fakkels die er stonden voor een lichtjesoptocht, zijn vermoedelijk de veroorzakers van de brand.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] It’s All the Same: the Looting of ‘High Art’ vs. the Looting of the Minor Arts (savingantiquities.org).   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Bij het veilinghuis Christie's in Amsterdam zijn 11 schilderijen opgedoken die in 1972 zijn gestolen uit een verzameldepot van de voormalige dienst gemeentemusea.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Philadelphia. Prosecutor seeks stiff term in museum case. The ex-seaport museum director deserves 15 to 19 years for his thievery and lies, the assistant U.S. attorney said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] AMSTERDAM - In de kunstroof waarin Europol meermalen vergeefs de Amsterdamse politie tipte, is vandaag alsnog een strafrechtelijk onderzoek door politie en justitie ingesteld.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Scotland. AN ORNATE window plaque worth UKP 2000 has been stolen from one of Glasgow's landmark cultural buildings.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Australia espera el fallo de la Biblioteca Nacional sobre el mapa recobrado   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Ecuador. La Policía pide ayuda a la Interpol para investigar el robo de la custodia de Riobamba.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] USA. Museum fire. Historical Modesto Items Gone in Fire.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The Parthenon, or Elgin, Marbles are in Britain. Greeks see the new museum as further reason for their return.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New Jersey. Court agrees museums are drug-free zones.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Peru recibe US $ 44, 182 de Estados Unidos para preservar cultura   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A British museum has agreed to unconditionally return Australian Aboriginal remains to Australia, the federal government says.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The British Museum is reviewing its security procedures after an eco-protester put face masks on two members of the Chinese Terracotta Army.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Art as a target for vandals: The cost of freedom.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Disaster Plan Writing Course online end of October   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The Netherlands. Theft bronze statues. De situatie rondom de gestolen bronzen en messing beelden in Amersfoort en de genomen.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] bypassing (lock picking) display case. Open within seconds.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] FW: [AFRICOM-L] Tempers are high among Nigerians resident inChicago, United States of Amercia (USA) following a planned exhibition of 220 royal artifacts allegedly stolen from Benin Kingdomduring thecolonial and post colonial era.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A Masked Protest at the British Museum   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Festwoche zur Wiedereröffnung der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Some broader discussions on why coins matter   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Why Coins Matter   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Should London finally lose the Parthenon marbles?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Palakkad: Theft of Ravi Varma painting : Three remanded in custody   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] SALT LAKE CITY: Detectives said they recovered Nazi artifacts that somehow moved from Adolf Hitler's mountain stronghold to a Utah storage unit where they were stolen two years ago.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Roban 123 figuras de cultura prehispánica Moche en norte peruano   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] MADRID - A man suspected of stealing valuable ancient maps and other documents from Spain's National Library has given himself up to police in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, library director Milagros del Corral said Wednesday in Madrid.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Bogotá, 17 oct (EFE).- Las obras de arte religioso y las piezas arqueológicas de América Latina están entre las más codiciadas por los traficantes, quienes en su afán de riqueza provocan el deterioro del patrimonio cultural y artístico de la región.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Recuperan en la Argentina 8 obras robadas en España. Son parte de los 19 mapamundis de 1482 hurtados en agosto último.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Dresden (ddp-lsc). Gegen den im Zusammenhang mit dem Diebstahl zweier Christo-Bilder in Dresden gesuchten 21-Jährigen ist Haftbefehl erlassen worden.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The New York old master dealer Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is being accused of operating a so-called "Ponzi scheme", in a New York court.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Diamoci una regolata. A Milano convegno internazionale sui codici etici nell'arte   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] TWO men accused over the theft of a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece worth up to UKP. 40m are private investigators from Ormskirk.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Sotheby's Iznik tiles come from stolen hoard. Panels and other pieces are being returned to the Turkish government.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Smuggling antiques is still a problem, say experts. Most Yemeni historical sites are not protected and locals can enter and play around like those children in Queen of Sheba's Throne in Mareb.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Toronto Police are searching for the brazen thieves who made off with a 15 foot high piece of sculpture from Morningside Park, located at 400 Morningside Ave.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hasankeyf in southeast Turkey has been home to Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans over the past 3, 000 years, and has the monuments to prove it. Visitors may soon need scuba gear to see them.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Norton Simon to keep disputed paintings. The action halts dueling lawsuits filed by the museum and Marei von Saher of Connecticut, the heir of a Jewish art dealer who lost the artworks to the Nazis in World War II.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] 'Gestolen' schilderij hangt in museum   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Grote kunstroof opgelost. Hij zocht er al lang niet meer naar, maar door puur toeval ontdekte de Haagse schilder Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk een gestolen werk van zijn hand op internet.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Germany's Historic Anna Amalia Library Reopens After Fire   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] "A critical look at U.S. media coverage of antiquities issues" by Roger Atwood   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Octogenarian couple pleads guilty to fraud over Egyptian statue fakery   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Highland Man Facing the Music after the recent hijacking of a motorized music museum.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Palakkad (PTI): A rare painting stolen by a gang from a country house in a village near here last month has been recovered and five persons arrested in this regard, police said on Friday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] This Friday, October 26, sees the auction of a piece of Lydian silver at Bonham's in London as lot 216.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The Netherlands Museum fire. AMERSFOORT - A large fire broke out in the Armando Museum in Amersfoort on Monday afternoon.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Thieves in Italy get 7 statues by Colombian artist Botero worth more than ¤3 million (US$5 million) . The statues were stolen from Pietrasanta, a Tuscan town where Botero spends part of the year. The works depict figures including a ballerina, a sparrow and a male nude, all designed in the rounded style of Botero's art, an official with the Carabinieri paramilitary police said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] the Netherlands. Armando Museum reduced to ashes. An entire museum burnt to the ground, complete with all of its exhibits: it is a nightmare that has become reality for the director of the Armando Museum in the Dutch town of Amersfoort. As if this wasn't bad enough, works on loan from other museums and collectors have also gone up in flames.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] TREVI FOUNTAIN: RUTELLI, INTOLERABLE VANDALISM   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] India. Palakkad (PTI): A rare painting stolen by a gang from a country house in a village near here last month has been recovered and five persons arrested in this regard, police said on Friday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] AFTER a journey around the world, a stolen 1482 map based on the work of the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy has been recovered in a Sydney art gallery.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Nouveau scandale à Drouot? La vente samedi par Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr du Pouce de César, en version lourde (6 mètres de haut, 6 tonnes), pour 1,2 million d’euros, prix jamais atteint pour cet artiste, a surpris son monde   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Two on trial over Aboriginal art sale. A HUSBAND-and-wife team forged paintings by a celebrated Aboriginal artist and sold them to prestigious auction houses for more than $300, 000, a jury has heard.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Three priceless art works and manuscripts stolen from the University of Auckland over Christmas have been returned.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The grandson of an Austrian woman who disappeared during the Holocaust sued cosmetics magnate Leonard Lauder on Monday, seeking up to $20 million in damages and ownership of a Gustav Klimt painting.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Restitution par l'Allemagne d'un manuscrit volé du "Roman de la Rose".   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] From Russia, with some concern. Masterpieces lined up for Royal Academy exhibition - if authorities can be reassured they won't be seized.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] NAPERVILLE (STNG) -- He was nowhere near the scene of the crime, which itself was hardly as dark or intense as any of the fictional crises featured in his television series "24, " but actor Kiefer Sutherland played a peripheral role in things just the same   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Argentina. El Museo Histórico seguirá cerrado. Para la Justicia, no hay aún mejoras en los sistemas de seguridad para resguardar el patrimonio.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Investigan si algún anticuario colaboró en el robo millonario de joyas en la Feria.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Ethiopia has started re-erecting its famed Axum obelisk 30 months after it returned to the country from Italy where it stayed for 70 years, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Hermitage Won't Send Art to London Without Guarantee From U.K.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] DETROIT -- Parishioners at St. Andrew's Church on the city's west side this morning discovered that thieves had stolen several items of deep religious significance and vandalized the church as well.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands-A fire that started Monday afternoon has destroyed the Armando Museum in the center of Amersfoort, Dutch News reports.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Germany's famed Anna Amalia library reopens, 3 years after devastating fire.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Paris. Reward Offered for Stolen Harry Winston Jewelry.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] NEWARK - A Bergen County man was arrested last evening on an Indictment charging him with stealing the Francisco de Goya painting "Children with a Cart" last year, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Materials Missing At Library Of Congress. 13 Percent of Collection Misplaced, Survey Finds.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Noah Charney alerta sobre "el auge" de los robos de obras de arte en los museos en su libro 'El ladrón de arte'. El texto parte de un suceso real: el robo de un Caravaggio en la iglesia barroca de Santa Giuliana de Roma.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A show of his own for the forger John Myatt who copied the best (why are forgers - just plain criminals financially victimizing many people and ruining the art trade - celebrated like heroes? TC)   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The prosecution sought an arrest warrant Wednesday for a painting collector on allegations he sold forged paintings of two famous Korean artists from the early 1900s. They also allege that one of the painters' son was also involved in the forgery case.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Italian police have discovered a huge stash of archaeological artefacts that a pensioner had dug up to create his own private -- and illegal -- museum, they said on Monday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New Jersey man arrested for Goya painting theft (It was stolen as the transport drivers spent the night at a motel in Stroudsburg, Pa., leaving the masterpiece unattended. They discovered it missing the next morning).   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] New Zealand museum blasts French refusal to return Maori head.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] El Sherlock Holmes del arte.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] 'Communicatie' herstelt van kunstroof. Tolman: "De dieven hadden het bronzen beeld in een vijftiental stukken gezaagd. De kop van de romp, de stoelpoten eraf, de benen, ga zo maar door."   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] MASON CITY - Official says library needs sprinklers; The Mason City Public Library has a fire alarm system but does not have a fire suppression system such as sprinklers, the chairwoman of the Library Renovation Campaign said Thursday.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] More on Cypriot Import Restrictions: Is the State Department Now Hiding the Ball from our Elected Representatives in Congress?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Bulgaria's Police Busts Antiques Smuggling Channel. Thirteen people were arrested in the police raid that took place from October 22 to 24, among them a well-known businessman from the city of Pazardzhik.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Norton Simon Museum keeps Cranachs - for now. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena demanding the return of two life-size paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder to Marei von Saher, heir of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] La policía de Ecuador investiga un nuevo robo de obras de arte religioso   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Gallarate: recuperate opere d'arte rubate nel 2006 da un attico della città. Quadri da un milione di euro   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Firenze.ARTE: CC RECUPERANO 5 ALBARELLI DEL XVIII SECOLO RUBATI   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] A lawyer who is one of four men charged in connection with the theft of a £30m da Vinci masterpiece from a Scottish stately home, resigned yesterday as a corporate partner with his legal firm.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Haldimand OPP are investigating a break enter and theft from a ship docked at Nanticoke. On Wednesday shortly after noon police were called out to the ship that is being restored in the harbour.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] In light of nationwide concerns about American museums possessing artwork that was looted from its rightful owners by the Nazis, the University of Michigan Museum of Art spent three years and more than $100, 000 to investigate its collections.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Church theft. In Search of Stolen Saints   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Third Key Sculpture Stolen from Streets of Frederick   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The "antique" watch that made BBC television's Rodney and Del Boy millionaires has been stolen.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] PLATTSBURGH - After admitting to taking items from the Clinton County Historical Association, Matthew Boire said his actions have lifetime consequences and excised him from the museum.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] ROME (AP) - Italy and the Princeton University Art Museum have reached a deal to return some artifacts Rome says were smuggled out of the country, the latest chapter in Italy's campaign to crack down on the illegal antiquities market.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Security to be tightened against art theft in museums. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has begun its fight against art theft in museums around Turkey.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] LOS ANGELES-Cao Yong, a Los Angeles-based Chinese artist, has reached a settlement with Costco after he brought an art-counterfeiting suit against the mega-chain in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Carabinieri recuperano preziosi vasi in maiolica di Monte Oliveto   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Russia. The remains of a pre-historic woolly rhino discovered in the Republic of Yakutia in Siberia earlier this year have been stolen. Scientists say it was unique because the body of the rhinoceros was unusually well preserved.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] MILAN - Not 15 months ago, they were staring each other down at a negotiating table, bargaining tensely over who should have title to 13 archaeological artifacts.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Bas-relief of Achaemenid soldier of Persepolis Despite all oppositions made by Iran regarding the sale of the head of the Achaemenid soldier, it has been sold in Christie's auction in London.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Germany's famed Anna Amalia library reopens, 3 years after devastating fire. While it includes many modern additions _ like a high-tech sprinkler system _ it carefully hid them so as not to disturb efforts to return the building to its original appearance   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Hippo theft has 'cut sculptor deep'. A Wellington man is feeling like a victim of the law of the jungle.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] TEGUCIGALPA (AP) - El arzobispo de Tegucigalpa, cardenal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez, advirtió el domingo que Dios castigará a los delincuentes que han robado en dos años centenares de reliquias religiosas de unos 30 templos católicos en Honduras.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] selon un bilan de la gendarmerie. Plus de 1 280 pièces archéologiques récupérées   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Artist Cao Yong settles dispute with Costco   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The treasure of the oceans: rise of the salvagers   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] The theft of a number of Lowry paintings worth more than £1.5m from a house in Greater Manchester in May is to be the focus of a Crimewatch appeal. BBC1 at 2100 GMT.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Princeton University has reached an agreement with Italy on the return of eight antique works of art and the retention of seven others.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] US. Three paintings valued at more than $100, 000 collectively were stolen Sunday from a North Side art gallery, police said.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Los ladrones también rentabilizan el boom del arte   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Montenegro Returns Stolen Pictures to Croatia   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Taylor can keep her Van Gogh, court rules   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Roban pintura de Salvador Dalí. La obra, valuada en 60 mil dólares, y otras dos piezas de distintos pintores fueron robadas de una galería de arte de San Antonio, Texas.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] THE RETURN OF THE OBELISK TO ETHIOPIA: A VICTORY FOR ETHIOPIA, ITALY AND THE RULE OF LAW.   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] records of minor museum visitor misbehavior?   Museum Security Network Mailing list
• [MSN] Plattsburgh theft pleads guilty link to story   Museum Security Network Mailing list

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