section_path: Aftermath
section_name: Aftermath
paragraph_text: Aftermath
  
  Drents Museum was closed temporarily due to the theft and was reopened on 31 January. The remaining artifacts of the exhibition were returned to Romania.
  
  On 27 January, Dutch minister of foreign affairs Caspar Veldkamp spoke to the Romanian minister of foreign affairs Emil Hurezeanu about the theft in Brussels. Veldkamp stated that "The Netherlands is doing everything it can to get the stolen objects back". Experts believe that the thieves intended to melt the artifacts.