The True Story Behind the World’s Biggest Art Heist

Presented by Georgina Bexon

On 18 March 1990, the ‘impossible’ happened – thirteen works of art, valued at a total of $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Museum officials, police and security experts were completely baffled as to how this had happened. These great masterpieces have never been recovered; a devastating loss to the museum and its public. This talk relates the story of the fascinating police investigation into the missing paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas and Manet; resulting in knowledge of how, why and by whom the robbery was committed but leaving the crime officially ‘unsolved’.

Dates and Locations

Monday 13 October 2025 Hunter (NSW)

Wednesday​ 15 October 2025 Tamworth (NSW)

​Tuesday 4 November 2025 Scone (NSW)

Thursday 6 November 2025 Paddington, Sydney (NSW) Lectures at 12:30pm and 6:00pm

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