The Baghdad Group for Modern Art was founded in 1951 after a dynamic period of change and growth in Iraq following the nation ...

We are delighted to welcome back author and friend of the Museum, Miriam Halahmy, for a special event inspired by her powerful new novel, A Boy From Baghdad. Wednesday 6th August 2025, 11:00 ...

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani left the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Saturday, after His Highness headed the delegation of the State of Qatar participating in ...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's culture and foreign ministries announced Tuesday the retrieval of antiquities from Switzerland and Japan. According to a press release by the Iraqi foreign ...

(AP) Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the return of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...

Safe From Looting, Damascus Museum Reopens A Month After Assad's Fall The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting.

The museum was closed for six years during Syria's civil war, which broke out in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-Assad protests, to protect its precious artefacts from violence or looting.

The Baghdad museum's collection was decimated by looters in the chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Outside the Damascus museum, Iyad Ghanem was among a group holding up signs ...

That 4,000-year-old lament sounded all too contemporary in April as Baghdad mobs stormed Iraq’s National Museum, ... Ricciardi believes “Our Lord” is a reference to Shamash, ...

It happened early in the US invasion, and quickly. On 10 April 2003, the first looters entered the National Museum of Iraq as American troops advanced into Baghdad. Over the next 36 hours, these ...

People visit the Iraqi national museum in Baghdad, capital city of Iraq, March 6, 2023.(Photo: Xinhua) A man visits the Iraqi national museum in Baghdad, capital city of Iraq, March 6, 2023.(Photo ...

A 2,700-year-old artifact believed to have been stolen from Iraq 20 years ago was discovered on exhibition in plain sight at an Emory University museum.