Sulaymaniyah Museum — Attraction in Bakrajo subdistrict

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 and in 2011 it was closed for maintenance by UNESCO and reopened in 2015 after its...

It is an archaeological museum located in the heart of the city of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and is considered the second largest museum in Iraq, after the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad in terms of contents. It contains many artifacts dating back to prehistoric times and Islamic and Ottoman eras. The museum was officially opened on July 14, 1961. At the beginning of the museum’s history it consisted of a small building in the Shorsh district, i.e. the revolution, after several years, it got a new and large building in the heart of Salem Street in Sulaimaniyah in 1980 AD, the current building has an area of ​​6000 square meters, It is a one-story building, and the artifacts are displayed in one small hall but were recently refurbished by UNESCO. At the time of the Iran-Iraq war, the museum was completely closed to the public. It was re-opened for a very short period in 1990. 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 AD, and in 2011 it was closed to maintenance work by UNESCO and it was reopened in 2015 after its...

Great location!! and very interesting place although the building is too small (that you don't really know where to look coz all the trials are closely collected together), it has many ancient trails but the only problem is they are not reserved well, it's very unfortunate and unresponsible of them to put the trails especially the large ones like that where you could easily touch them at this point I doubt if they are real or just fake ones. Let's not forget the fact there's no date or evidence based data about the trials which again got my attention. The simply named the trials without even mentioning the place they found in or when it dates back to. I just hope someone could take a better care of the trials rather than leaving...