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Mosul Cultural Museum

Musée de Mossoul

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- Mosul and its Museum
- - The Birth of a Museum
  - The Premises
  - Teams at the Museum
- - The Current Museum
  - The Construction of the Current Museum
  - The Architect Mohamed Makiya
  - The Museum Open to the Public
- The Disaster of Destruction
- - 2003 to 2017: Dark Times
  - 2003 to 2014: A Closed Museum
  - June 2014 to July 2017: Mosul Occupied by Daesh
- - Mosul after its Liberation in 2017
  - Mosul, a Battered City
  - A Museum of Shadows and Ashes
- The Destruction of Archaeological Sites
Great Archaeological Sites
- Rehabilitating the Mosul Cultural Museum
- An Ambitious International Rehabilitation Project
- - First Major Steps
  - The First Steps of the Project
  - Planning the Actions
- Restoring the Works of Art
- - Towards the Rebirth of the Museum
  - Restoring the Building
  - Training and Expertise
Legal Notices
- Mosul Cultural Museum Collections and Legendary Sites
- Historical Overview of the Region
- - The Origins of Mesopotamia
  - The Prehistory of Northern Mesopotamia
  - Nineveh and the Bronze Age
- - The Glory of the Assyrian Empire
  - A Major Empire
  - Nimrud
  - Balawat
  - Khorsabad
  - Niniveh
- - Late Antiquity and the City of Hatra
  - Between East and West in Late Antiquity
  - Sculpture at Hatra
- - The Islamic Period
  - Mosul and Iraq in the Islamic Period
  - Wooden Furniture in the Shrines
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Musée de Mossoul

Remarkable for its architecture and collections, the Mosul Cultural Museum is the second most important in Iraq after the one in Baghdad. Since its foundation in 1952 and until its destruction by Daesh in 2015, its history is intimately linked to that of Mosul and its region. The museum, like the city, is now facing the challenges of reconstruction in order to be reborn as a highly symbolic place where the multi-millennial and multi-cultural history of Mosul and Iraq could be discovered.

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THE MOSUL CULTURAL MUSEUM FROM DESTRUCTION TO REHABILITATION
Virtual reality tour of Mosul's cultural museum before Daesh attacks
Virtual tour of the Mosul Cultural Museum during its restoration
Mosul Cultural Museum in 2018
The city of Mosul in 1917
The old city of Mosul in 1932
Market in the old city of Mosul, ca. 1932
Washing wool in the Tigris, Mosul, ca. 1932
A coppersmith in Mosul, ca. 1932
Pile of watermelons in Mosul, ca. 1932
Mosul from the Tigris in the 1920s
The stone bridge of Mosul in 1923

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Mosul and its Museum

Mosul
The Birth of a Museum
The Current Museum

The Disaster of Destruction

2003 to 2017: Dark Times
Mosul after its Liberation in 2017
The Destruction of Archaeological Sites

Rehabilitating the Mosul Cultural Museum

An Ambitious International Rehabilitation Project
First Major Steps
Restoring the Works of Art
Towards the Rebirth of the Museum

Mosul Cultural Museum Collections and Legendary Sites

Historical Overview of the Region
The Origins of Mesopotamia
The Glory of the Assyrian Empire
Late Antiquity and the City of Hatra
The Islamic Period

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Media library
Site map
Glossary

About us

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Great Archaeological Sites

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Beyond time and space, the Archeologie.culture.fr collection presents the history and life of men through the research of the greatest specialists in French archeology.
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