Where is the safest place to store artworks? Even in the most famous and heavily guarded museums, they can still be stolen. The British Museum has had over 2,000 pieces stolen to date; Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa also disappeared from the Louvre Museum in France. Wealthy collections? One collector deliberately bought the satirical painting "The Return of the Assembly" with the intention of vandalizing it; others, seeking fame, have directly thrown acid at Rubens' paintings. Besides theft, natural disasters, war, human actions, and even political factors are all enemies of art and cultural heritage. Even the collections of the world's wealthiest Rothschild family were not spared from war.
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