Priceless
ART MYSTERY TRUE CRIME
Welcome to Priceless! A project combining art, true crime, mystery, and insatiable curiosity. Stick around, read a few articles, enjoy!
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Children Wading
Usually when a painting is stolen from a gallery or museum or private collection it’s never seen again, as we sadly know by now. But what happens when they do resurface? How do museums go about getting them back?
Transylvania University Book Heist
This crime, also known as the Transy Book Heist, has made its way to notoriety through the extensive media coverage, inclusion on the FBI’s list of most significant art crimes, and movies and TV shows being based on the events.
Terracotta Soldier Finger Theft
Four days before Christmas in 2017 a clay thumb, from a sculpture of a soldier on loan to the museum, vanished. No one seemed to know where it went and the search for it went on to involve the FBI in order to reclaim the digit.