OSLO, Norway -- The Munch Museum in Oslo was to reopen Friday with massive security upgrades brought on by the brazen theft of two Edvard Munch masterpieces by gunmen in August. The "The Scream" and "Madonna" paintings are still missing despite five ...

Stealing artwork is far from being white-collar and more about carelessness, violence, and disgruntled employees. Spain is one of the hardest-hit countries, although the Louvre holds the most famous theft.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the aggravated robbery of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990 shocked the world. To this day, it is “history’s biggest art heist”, with more than “half a billion dollars” of art vanishing into thin air, said CNN.

OSLO, Norway - Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum Sunday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream" and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched in shock. It was the second time in a decade ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Thieves who staged a daring daylight heist at the Louvre museum in Paris made off with jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102.63 million), Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday.

The Louvre remained closed Monday, a day after historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most-visited museum in a daring daylight heist that prompted authorities to reassess security measures at cultural sites across France.

Priceless jewels were stolen from the Louvre in Paris over the weekend, raising serious questions about security at the world's most visited museum. The stolen Napoleon-era jewels were not privately insured,

The Louvre Museum in Paris remains closed to the public after robbers stole imperial jewels in broad daylight on Sunday.