Mosul Museum
The second-largest museum in Iraq, the Mosul Museum holds treasures from Nineveh, Nimrud and the desert city of Hatra. Ransacked in 2015, it is being restored with international support, gradually returning its recovered and reconstructed collections to public view.
2 stops to discover
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The Assyrian Hall and Its Lamassu
The museum's centrepiece was its hall of monumental Assyrian sculpture — winged-bull lamassu, the Lion of Nimrud and the throne base of King Ashurnasirpal II. These were the masterpieces ISIS filmed themselves smashing in 2015; their painstaking restoration is central to the museum's revival.
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From Destruction to Rehabilitation
A working conservation lab lets visitors watch Iraqi and international experts piece shattered antiquities back together. The museum's first post-war exhibition, 'From Destruction to Rehabilitation' (2023), turned its own near-death into the exhibit.
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