Boston Art Heist Research Paper

There were many large events that happened in the 1990s such as the Gulf War, Nelson Mandela was set free, Germany was united, Google was found, and the i mac was introduced. There was also a very big and interesting event that happened and seems to be missed by most people: The Boston Art Heist. What makes this event so interesting is that not very many people seem to know what actually happened or have never even heard of it. The Gardner Art Heist remains a mystery today. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was opened in 1903 by Isabella Stewart Gardner who lived from 1840 - 1924. The museum is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has been around for almost 113 years. In the year of 1990 on March 18 early in the morning, there was a theft
The thief’s must not have been in too much of a hurry it took the thief’s over an hour to steal the art. There was not very many clues left to go off to solve the case. One of the guards claims to have gotten a good enough look at one of them to see that his mustache was made from wax. Since the heist happened there has been clues and leads trickling in but none that have lead to any of the artwork being returned to the Gardner. A newspaper reporter who wrote a article about the art came across a man who says he knew where some of the art was. He and the reporter came into contact and he claims they met in the middle of the night and he was took to a warehouse and was showed one of the paintings by flashlight(Goldman). A main question seems to be, why would somebody steal from a museum? There were many gangs around that area, some figure that the individuals that stole the art would eventually try to trade them in for some of their friends or relatives in jail. This would be about the only reasonable explanation because for example if they tried to sell the art the art could more than likely be traced back to who stole the