A former FBI agent described as “a modern-day Indiana Jones” will give three lectures at the Medici Museum of Art in Howland.

Robert K. Wittman served as the FBI investigative expert on crimes involving art and cultural property and recovered more than $300 million in art / cultural property during his 20 years with the bureau.

He is the author of two books, the New York Times best-seller “Priceless” and “The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich,” and he’s appeared in more than a dozen true-crime documentaries and television series.

Medici Executive Director Katelyn Amendolara-Russo said she went to see Wittman speak at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015.

“I bought his book ‘Priceless,’ met with him and got his autograph, and his talk really left an impression on me,” she said. “When I became director at Medici, I thought it was a great opportunity to open doors to the community, to open minds to different subject matter in art.”

Lectures will be scheduled on the first Wednesday of the month starting in April.

The topic for the first program on April 6 will be “Art Crime and the FBI: How Masterpieces are Stolen and Recovered” with Wittman recounting the formation of the FBI National Art Crime Team and some of the masterpieces it rescued.

One of those works has a connection to the Norman Rockwell collection of paintings for the Boy Scouts of America that currently is on display at Medici. He was involved in the recovery of five Rockwells in Brazil that were stolen from a gallery in Minneapolis. One of the paintings was Rockwell’s “Spirit of ’76,” which was in the private collection of Brown & Bigelow, the publisher who created the BSA calendar that featured many of Rockwell’s paintings.

“That’s another reason I wanted to have him here,” Amendolara-Russo said.

“Art Crime: Frauds, Forgeries and Fakes” will be the subject of a May 4 lecture as Wittman talks about some of the famous art forgery cases he investigated.

The final program on June 1 will focus on “Art Crime: History in Peril — Stealing & Recovering a Lost Nazi Diary,” with Wittman talking about the recovery in 2013 of a private diary belonging to Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg that had been lost for 60 years.

All of the lectures start at 7 p.m. Seating will be limited to about 200 for each program.

Tickets are $35 for each lecture or $100 for all three programs, and the first 150 people who buy tickets for the full series will receive an autographed copy of Wittman’s book “Priceless.” Tickets can be purchased to attend the lectures in person or virtually.

Tickets for the lecture series are available online at medicimuseum.eventbrite.com.