May 1998 Swissair Flight 111 plane crash, 2 September 1998 Ashmolean Museum theft, 31 December 1999 Nationalmuseum theft, 22 Dec 2000 Russborough House art theft #3, 2001 National Museum, Poznań theft, September 2000 Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum theft, 2000–2002 Taliban iconoclasm, March 2001 Hermitage Museum theft, 22 March 2001 September 11 attacks, 2001 World Trade Center Collapse, 11 September 2001 Marielle Schwengel's destruction of stolen art, November 2001 Frans Hals Museum theft, 25 March 2002 Edenhurst Gallery theft, 28 July 2002 Russborough House art theft #4, September 2002 Van Gogh Museum theft, 8 December 2002 2003 Iraq War National Museum of Iraq thefts, 8–12 April 2003 Kunsthistorisches Museum theft, 11 May 2003 Drumlanrig Castle theft, 27 August 2003 Momart fire, 24 May 2004 Santo Spirito in Sassia Hospital theft, 31 July 2004 Munch Museum theft, 22 August 2004 Neumann Foundation theft, 27 October 2004 Victoria and Albert Museum theft, 29 December 2004 Westfries Museum theft, 9 January 2005 Henry Moore Foundation theft, 15 December 2005 Strindberg Museum theft, 15 February 2006 Museu da Chácara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro theft, 24 February 2006 São Paulo Museum of Art theft, 20 December 2007 Foundation E.G. Bührle theft, 10 February 2008 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo theft, 12 June 2008 Hélio Oiticica fire, 16 October 2009 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris theft, 10 May 2010 Dulwich Park theft, 20 December 2011 Kunsthal Art theft, 16 October 2012 Clandon House fire, 29 April 2015 National Museum of Brazil fire, 2 September 2018 Dresden Green Vault burglary 2019 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Burning of the Museum of Local History in the town of Ivankiv, Kyiv region, February 2022 Destruction of Research and recovery efforts The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are submitted for entry to the NSAF by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad." A number of search and recovery efforts were created in response to major loss events, notably: Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program ("Monuments Men"), 1943–1946 Bureau of Revindication and Damages (Poland), operated from 1945 to 1951 Bureau of the Government Representative for Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad, 1991-