Museum Workers Replaced Priceless Artwork With Fakes And Sold Originals ? Stealing art from a museum is far from a simple Crime. It takes people with a lot of brains and real deep guts to even think of pulling something like that off, and even then it’s difficult not to get caught. Such was this case off a bunch of workers at the Uzbek State Art Museum, who were found guilty of replacing artwork with fake versions and selling the original art ,