Sep 25, 2026 · 25 min · 8 segments
In this part of our 'Steal Me' series we discuss the biggest art heists and their technical aspects: how, when and where are they ususally pulled off? Hope you'll like this episode! The next one is…
This painting is worth a hundred million bucks.
They shut off the air to drive out the tourists.
Then they close the gates to keep everybody out.
Diversion make a lot of noise over there.
So over here in this room, you can take a hundred million off the wall and waltz right out the front door.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, yes.
It's about this, probably you have seen it, but still I'll go a bit more in the detail.
It's about this grand art collector who lives in New York City, who goes to the museum every morning before his work and then stages the theft of this particular painting that he likes.
He hires a special group of the gangsters, but then steals the painting himself.
And then you need to obviously watch a movie.
Now, the thing why it would not probably work as nowadays there are some motion detectors in the museums, though there was an alarm going on by people trying to catch the fifth, which allowed him to swiftly take away the painting.
It wouldn't probably stop the alarm in all of the rooms nowadays, first thing, and second thing, the artworks are glassified quite well in most of the museums and they're stuck to the wall quite well, so he wouldn't be probably able to take the painting so swiftly nowadays.
Now we need to thank the people who are fighting for the environment for that, because obviously we need to thank them for a lot of things.
But one of the things is that they're throwing the soups and they were doing on a lot of paintings, which I personally do not approve and support at all.
But it inspired the museums to glassify the artworks and to stick them to the walls much better.
So you would have to fiddle a bit with an artwork in order to steal it.
This painting is worth a hundred million bucks.
They shut off the air to drive out the tourists.
Then they close the gates to keep everybody out.
Diversion make a lot of noise over there.
So over here in this room, you can take a hundred million off the wall and waltz right out the front door.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, yes.
It's about this, probably you have seen it, but still I'll go a bit more in the detail.
It's about this grand art collector who lives in New York City, who goes to the museum every morning before his work and then stages the theft of this particular painting that he likes.
He hires a special group of the gangsters, but then steals the painting himself.
And then you need to obviously watch a movie.
Now, the thing why it would not probably work as nowadays there are some motion detectors in the museums, though there was an alarm going on by people trying to catch the fifth, which allowed him to swiftly take away the painting.
It wouldn't probably stop the alarm in all of the rooms nowadays, first thing, and second thing, the artworks are glassified quite well in most of the museums and they're stuck to the wall quite well, so he wouldn't be probably able to take the painting so swiftly nowadays.
Now we need to thank the people who are fighting for the environment for that, because obviously we need to thank them for a lot of things.
But one of the things is that they're throwing the soups and they were doing on a lot of paintings, which I personally do not approve and support at all.
But it inspired the museums to glassify the artworks and to stick them to the walls much better.
So you would have to fiddle a bit with an artwork in order to steal it.
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