1911: Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre

On 7 September 1911, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire was imprisoned for theft. His close friend Pablo Picasso was also questioned. Both were released and later it was clear that it was an employee of the museum who was behind the coup.

However, his client never heard of the theft and after the thief hid the blackboard in his apartment, he tired and tried to sell it again. He was then arrested and Mona Lisa regained his place in the Louvre.

1993: Picasso coup at Moderna Museet

In 1993, several works were stolen by Picasso and Georges Braque during a spectacular coup against the Moderna museet in Stockholm. The thieves entered through the roof.

After more than a year of negotiations with the thieves, the then National Crime Chief Tommy Lindström and the Moderna Museum's former Security Manager Kjell Hestrell managed to get the theft back. The terms are still unknown, but no money was paid.

2000: The Rembrandt robbery at the National Museum

Three men, one of them armed with a K-gun, rushed into the National Museum in 2000 and came across paintings (including Rembrandt's self-portrait) for just over $ 290 billion. While one of the robbers stole the boards, one of them held visitors and staff hostage in the entrance.

Just when the police got the alarm from the National Museum, another alarm came about traffic chaos and two burning cars just 100 meters from the museum. It was a very well-planned coup, where the thieves fled by boat in the Stockholm maze of canals.

A loosely composed group of criminals appeared to be behind the deed, and in the summer of 2005, all artwork had been traced and taken back to the National Museum. The master behind the robbery, a man of Russian background, was sentenced to eight years in prison despite his denial.

2004: The Skriet Cup in Oslo

In 2004, an armed robbery took place where masked men entered the Munch Museum in Oslo. The targets were the two famous paintings "Scream" and "Madonna" by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The robbers forced the guards at the museum down to the floor, stole the works and then fled in a car which was later found abandoned with the frames.

Two years after the theft, the two works were found by the police in Oslo and could be returned to the museum.