The Sulaymaniyah Museum (Kurdish: Muzhakhani Selmani) is an archaeological museum located in the heart of the city of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is considered the second largest museum in Iraq, after the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad in terms of contents. It includes many artifacts dating back to the prehistoric period, the Islamic and the late Ottoman eras. The museum was officially opened on July 14, 1961. At the beginning of the history of the museum, it consisted of a small building in the Al-Shorsh neighborhood, meaning the revolution, after several years, it acquired a new and large building In the heart of Salem Street in Sulaymaniyah in the year 1980 AD,[1] the current building has an area of ​​6000 square meters, and consists of one floor. The artifacts are displayed in one small hall, but it was recently renovated by UNESCO, at the time of the Iran-Iraq war, the museum was completely closed to the public. It was reopened for a very short period in 1990 AD. After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the museum was closed again, but it was officially reopened by Jalal Talabani on August 20, 2000,[2][3] and in 2011 it was closed for maintenance by UNESCO and reopened in 2015 after its reconstruction .