The Mosul Museum in northern Iraq announced Thursday the kick-off of the "last" rehabilitation work of the institution. Supported by the Louvre de Paris and the World Monuments Fund, the Mosul Museum also inaugurated a temporary exhibition that reviews its history, its collection, and presents the restoration plans.
"This museum, an icon of Iraq's museums, was targeted by an indiscriminate barbaric assault," said Laith Majid, director of the Iraqi Council of Antiquities. The exhibition is highly symbolic. This is an opportunity for the Museum, closed to the public since 2003 due to security concerns, to welcome its first visitors in 20 years.