Talk:Iraq Museum

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Citations like "a bronze Uruk statue from the Acadian period" do not exactly generate trust in the text. Pyule 13.10.2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.162.172.66 (talk) 11:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

It was my understanding that initial reports of the artifacts' destruction were way overblown, that very few items of value were actually lost. Worth following up and possibly correcting on this point?


 * It was corrected. If you read the follow-up reports carefully, they do not say that very few items were stolen by US troops, just an unknown number that was considerably less than the full extent of the collection. Some U.S. media sources liked to imply that very few were lost and that initial reports were entirely off base, but that implication is just that.--The Cunctator


 * Many priceless objects are still missing as of September 2003. And PBS has reported that tens of thousands of artifacts were plundered from the archaeological sites around the country and hauled off across the border to Syria or Saudi Arabia. If you imagine someone destroying a "very few items of value" to us Americans -- the Statue of Liberty, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, Lincoln's head at the Lincoln Memorial, the Liberty Bell, Jamestown, the Alamo, Gettysburg, the White House, the Smithsonian, and setting fire to the Library of Congress, all in one day -- I think what happened in Iraq was much, much worse.

The page would be much more interesting and informative if it contained much more on the contents of the museum. By reading the article, all that one can glean is that it contained Nimrud artifacts. Other than that by-the-by mention, there's no mention of what all the museum contained. I, personally, know of some of the exhibits, but in order for an uninformed person to appreciate the tragedy of the looting, you have to understand what was looted. And that is certainly missing from the article. --patton1138 17:23, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Most of the stolen items are unaccounted for, but some private collectors in the Middle East and Europe have admitted possessing objects bearing the initials IM

Needs work from Bogdanos' Thieves of Baghdad
This article needs filling in (and possibly spinning off the theft completely into a separate article) from Bogdanos' book, Thieves of Baghdad. Bogdanos, a Marine reservist who is a New York City prosecutor by day and classicist by training, lead the team that investigated the thefts and launched a recovery program for the stolen pieces. I have filled in some from his Gazette piece, but there are many available online: or via print sources; I recall Time did a piece on him.

And yes, I will write up an article on him...when my to-do list gets shorter.--Mmx1 02:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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From Simon Jenkins's article in The Guardian: ''When I visited the museum six months later, its then director, Donny George, proudly showed me the best he was making of a bad job. He was about to reopen, albeit with half his most important objects stolen. The pro-war lobby had stopped pretending that the looting was nothing to do with the Americans, who were shamefacedly helping retrieve stolen objects under the dynamic US colonel, Michael Bogdanos (author of a book on the subject). Today the picture is transformed. Donny George fled for his life last August after death threats. The national museum is not open but shut. Nor is it just shut. Its doors are bricked up, it is surrounded by concrete walls and its exhibits are sandbagged. Even the staff cannot get inside. There is no prospect of reopening.'' --Ghirla-трёп- 07:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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The Iraq Museum
Should this whole page be called The Iraq Museum, seeing as that what the museum thinks its called and it even says on the wiki page that it is an error to call it the National Museum of Iraq?Layne Stalin (talk) 14:16, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

March 6, 2022
Was the Iraq Museum officially opened again on March 6, 2022? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 16:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC)