At museum director Ad Geerdink from Emmen the thoughts went back to twenty years ago yesterday. The Westfries Museum in Hoorn was then the target of a brutal art. Sixteen paintings and dozens of pieces of silver were lost. Geerdink knows what such a looting causes. “As an organization you have been bothered by this for a long time.”
Sure, the theft from the North Holland museum is a while ago. And Geerdink was appointed director in 2007, two years after the brutal robbery. “But the impact is huge,” he knows. “Harry Tupan (director of Drents Museum, ed.) And his team are in a film that you don’t want to sit in.”
The Goudoof will leave deep marks in Assen. Just as happened at the Hoornse Museum. “It is very intense now. Everyone wants to know everything. That is the case for a director, but also for the staff. You have to introduce yourself; the police do not exclude anything at all. So also help from within. is being investigated and has a huge impact on the organization. “
In addition, the sense of safety is seriously affected, Geerdink continues. “You may think: such an artist does not happen to us. We have things in order. But then it happens. Yes, this will certainly have an impact in the longer term. “
It is known from the Drents Museum that various masterpieces have been captured from the exhibition Dacia – Rich of gold and silver. The objects would be there for the last time this weekend and go back to the country of Romania on Monday.
Nothing of the stolen silverware from the Westfries Museum was found after 2005, but six of the sixteen -disappeared paintings came back. Geerdink: “That all took a lot of effort.” This spring, the Polish police were still in the painting during a raid in an apartment in Krakow Rebecca and Eliezer, owned by the museum. “We expect that painting back soon.”
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