Basra Floor On Display Army Museum

And while a museum in southern iraq has been a must for a long time it wasn t until recently september 27th to be exact that the long awaited basra museum opened its first gallery few can imagine the struggles of opening a museum in iraq but this is a project that has been.

Basra floor on display army museum. Basrah museum opened its doors to the public in march 2019. It s now the job of qahtan al obaid the new director to try to replace what was lost. The old basrah museum was looted in the 1st and 2nd gulf wars and was closed in 2003. The battered shell of a once opulent waterside palace built by saddam hussein may be restored as a new museum for the ancient port of basra with help from the british army and the british museum.

There s no better way to celebrate culture and preserve history than opening a museum dedicated just to that. The surviving objects from the original basra museum now sit on a single shelf in the basra gallery. Achieve your creative vision down to the smallest detail with gaylord s complete line of exhibit cases display cases supplies and accessories can help you show off your collections in their best light while keeping them safe preserved and protected. September 3 2020 displays feature health center s namesake august 31 2020 u s.

Basra s previous museum was looted in 1991. Visitors overlooking the display that holds the artifacts from the original museum basra 2019 the museum building a former saddam hussain palace was for many years used by the british army as an operational centre. Basra museum struggles to keep iraq s heritage at home. Half its objects were stolen and the director was shot dead.

Army aviation museum features xh 40 helicopter that changed world august 31 2020 illinois army national guard. متحف البصرة is a museum in the iraqi city of basra housed in a former palace of saddam hussein its collection is related to mesopotamian babylonian persian civilisations as well as the history of the city itself. The new museum is housed in one of saddam hussein s former palaces. The british army and the british museum agreed to help create a new museum with.

The basra museum displays around 2 200 objects from the sumerian babylonian assyrian and hellenistic eras 100 of which were reportedly looted and returned to iraq from jordan and the united states. The director of the basrah antiquities heritage is qahtan al abeed who has. The initial conversion was undertaken by the british army in 2008 and the first gallery was opened to the public in september 2016 funded by the friends of basrah museum.