West Norway Museum of Decorative Art

In 2010, intruders broke into the museum via a glass ceiling, rappelled down, and took 56 objects from the China Collection, which included vases and imperial seals.

Surveillance cameras picked up photos of two young men wearing high-beam headlights and using crowbars to smash glass cases.

[5] Police told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that they were also investigating two car fires in Bergen reported around the same time.

It’s entirely clear that they knew what they were after.” Reportedly Høyersten thought that the thieves had a “shopping list” of sorts when they hit the group’s Permanenten Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, and likely were hired by carry out the theft by clients keen on obtaining Chinese artifacts.

That's the biggest problem.”[4] Police arrested six men in connection with the break-in, but reportedly determined that they were foot soldiers who either could not or would not share information about who hired them.

Kenneth Didriksen, the head of Norway's art-crime unit indicated that Norwegian officials were wary of upsetting a delicate relationship with China.

"[4] In 2013, Chinese billionaire Huang Nubo visited the museum to view a collection of marble columns taken from the Old Summer Palace of Beijing.

Soon thereafter, the museum shipped seven of the marble columns back to China to be displayed at Peking University, Huang's alma mater, on permanent loan.