Campaign Starts to Help Iraq Rebuild Cultural Institutions

Here’s A NYTimes Article on announce a campaign to rebuild as much as possible the plundered cultural institutions of Iraq.

Experts from the Louvre in Paris, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Berlin’s State Museum and Russia’s Hermitage unveiled a plan to inventory within six months the losses in a wave of looting at the National Museum in Baghdad, the National Library and other museums and sites. They also pledged to provide assistance to their beleaguered Iraqi colleagues in restoring damaged antiquities. The meeting included archaeologists from leading Western universities and officials of Unesco and the British government.

April 30, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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