The Vault

Two men smashed a display case in a Swedish cathedral during visiting hours, grabbed royal crown jewels dating from 1600, and escaped on a speedboat across a lake. While tourists watched.

Show Notes

Two men smashed a display case in a Swedish cathedral during visiting hours, grabbed royal crown jewels dating from 1600, and escaped on a speedboat across a lake. While tourists watched.

What is The Vault?

The most valuable things in Europe keep disappearing. True crime stories about lost art.
Art theft, museum heists, and stolen treasures, the stories behind Europe's most dramatic cultural crimes. From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to Nazi looted art, told with the warmth of an art historian and the precision of a detective.

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