About the Webinar
Noah Charney joins us to take a look at notable theft incidents at the world's most famous museum. The Louvre was recently the site of a theft involving of nearly 100 million dollars' worth of jewelry (or 10 million if the jewelry is chopped up, as we'll discuss), making international headlines and raising the question of just how secure such an institution is. This talk will dive deeply into that recent heist and look at what the criminals did well, where they tripped up, and what has almost certainly happened to the stolen jewelry. But that's just the start. We'll also look at other theft incidents in the history of the Louvre, focusing on the most famous peace-time robbery of anything in history, the 1911 heist of Leonardo's "Mona Lisa." Along the way, we'll learn how much of the Louvre's collection was accumulated via theft (thanks Napoleon), and hear the story of how Pablo Picasso of all people was involved in a separate Louvre heist of his own. Yale Alumni Academy thanks our co-sponsors for this program, Yale Alumni College, a program created by alumni-for-alumni which features courses, outings, and events designed to reconnect with the spirit of being at Yale. Learn more about Yale Alumni College here.
