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# Art Crime

Art and cultural property crime—which includes theft, fraud, looting, and trafficking across state and international lines—leads to billions of dollars in losses every year.

## Art Crime Team 

The FBI Art Crime Team, made up of special agents from across the country, is coordinated through the FBI’s Art Crime Program at FBI Headquarters. 

Agents on our Art Crime Team:
                    - Address art and cultural property crime cases in assigned geographic regions 
                    - Receive specialized training in art and cultural property investigations 
                    - Assist in art-related investigations worldwide in cooperation with foreign law enforcement officials and FBI legal attaché offices 
                    - Receive support from U.S. Department of Justice special trial attorneys

Since its inception in 2004, the Art Crime Team has recovered more than 20,000 items valued at over $900 million. 

## The National Stolen Art File (NSAF)  

The National Stolen Art File (NSAF) is an online database of stolen art and cultural property. Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad submit stolen objects to the NSAF. 
                    - If you have information on a piece in the NSAF,  submit a tip to the FBI at tips.fbi.gov . 
                    - If you or your organization need access to the NSAF, contact  your local FBI field office  or your closest  FBI legal attaché﻿ .  

You can also access the NSAF database in the palm of your hand using our National Stolen Art File app.

**What should you do if you discover art has been stolen from your gallery, museum, or other institution? **
                    - Contact your local police department immediately
                    - Protect the scene of the crime—do not let staff or visitors into the area to disturb evidence
                    - Determine the last time the objects were seen and what happened in the area, or to the objects, since that time
                    - Gather documents, descriptions, and images of the missing objects and provide to law enforcement
                    - Keep in touch with law enforcement for investigation updates    

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### Art Crime News

                          -  04.10.2024  Historic Firearms Returned to Philadelphia Museum 
                          -  03.15.2024  FBI Boston Recovers and Returns 22 Historic Artifacts to Japan 
                          -  03.15.2024  FBI Boston Recovers and Returns 22 Historic Artifacts to Okinawa, Japan 
                          -  03.14.2024  Rare, Wrongfully Obtained Manuscript Returned to Peruvian Government 
                          -  03.01.2024  Activists Charged in Red Powder Attack on U.S. Constitution at the U.S. Archives 
                          -  02.20.2024  Brian Walshe Sentenced for Scheme to Sell Counterfeit Warhol Paintings 
                          -  02.12.2024  Lackawanna County Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Steal Major Artworks and Sports Memorabilia 
                          -  02.06.2024  Utah Man Charged in Attack on Memorial to African American Civil War Soldiers at the National Gallery of Art 
                          -  01.29.2024  Minnesota Man Sentenced for the Theft of the 'Ruby Slippers' from the Classic 1939 Film “The Wizard of Oz” 
                          -  01.26.2024  More Than 50 Years After Theft, Stolen John Opie Painting Recovered and Returned to Rightful Owner 
                          -  01.18.2024  Hungarian Woman Sentenced for Fraud and Money Laundering for Selling Counterfeit Art 
                          -  12.15.2023  Activist Pleads Guilty to Defacing a Degas Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art 
                          -  11.29.2023  Rare, Wrongfully Obtained Manuscript to be Returned to Peru 
                          -  10.19.2023  Missing Since World War II, Painting Repatriated to Bavarian Museum 
                          -  10.13.2023  Minnesota Man Pleaded Guilty to the Theft of the “Ruby Slippers” From the Classic 1939 Film “The Wizard of Oz” 

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### FBI Top Ten Art Crimes 

                    - Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts
                    - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft
                    - Theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco
                    - Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius
                    - The Van Gogh Museum Robbery  (Recovered)
                    - Theft of Cezanne’s View of Auvers-sur-Oise
                    - Theft of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals, Panels 3-A and 3-B
                    - Theft from the Museu Chacara do Céu
                    - Theft of Van Mieris’ A Cavalier
                    - Theft of Renoir Oil Painting

### External Links and Resources 

                    - Interpol Stolen Works of Art 
                    - Interpol Cultural Heritage Crime 
                    - U.S. Department of State Cultural Heritage Office 
                    - ﻿International Council of Museums 
                    - Interpol Washington, the United States Central Bureau 
                    - UNESCO Convention for Cultural Property Protection 
                    - Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Detail 

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