In October 2025, four people were arrested and charged with swiping €88m (£76m; $102m) worth of jewels from the famous Louvre museum in Paris. While there have been many brazen museum heists over the years, what makes this one stick out is that the perpetrators weren’t even a part of an organized crime syndicate, they were mere petty criminals living in a ghetto north of the French capital! Oh, and it happened in broad daylight. Years down the road, this epic theft will still be talked about, much like the following 10 Greatest Art Heists of All Time.
The Loovre Affair (2003)
Back in 2003, thieves broke into the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England, and swiped paintings by Picasso and van Gogh, along with a Paul Gauguin for good measure, worth a combined £4 million at the time. Did they make a modest fortune selling them at some underground auction or something? Nah. The culprits, who’ve never been identified, stuffed them into a cardboard tube and left them in a loo (thus, the “Loovre” pun coined by the British press), along with a note stating they did all this to highlight the flaws in the museum’s security. The museum came out and denied that its security was inadequate, and for this we commend them for doing a superb job of not preventing the fiasco.
The 10 Greatest Art Heists of All Time 
