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Erbil Civilization Museum Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit The Erbil Civilization Museum (Kurdish: مۆزەخانەی شارستانیی ھەولێر, Arabic: متحف أربيل الحضاري) is an archeological museum which is located within the city of Hawler, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is the second largest museum in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Sulaymaniyah Governorate in terms of contents and collections. It houses artifacts which date back to the pre-historic period to the late Abbasid period.

Erbil Civilization Museum مۆزەخانەی شارستانیی ھەولێر متحف أربيل الحضاري

Erbil Civilization Museum MapWikimedia | © OpenStreetMap Established Mid-1960s Location Hawler, Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq Type Archaeological museum Collections It houses artifacts which date back to the pre-historic period to the late Islamic period. History edit The very first building of the Museum was established in mid-1960 and contained few artifacts. The building was small and was located within the heart of the city of Hawler, at the Minarah district. The, then, Erbil Archaeological Inspection Directorate was responsible for administering the museum. In the mid-1970s, the museum building was relocated into the Citadel of Erbil. The museum was administered by the General Directorate of Archaeology in Baghdad. After then, many artifacts, from different ancient periods were transferred from the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad to the museum as a permanent loan. The content and collections of the museum grew tremendously. Another project to establish a new building was started in 1985 to accommodate the increasing number of artifacts. The current building was opened in 1989, after the end of the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) and lies close to the ancient tell of Qalinj Agha. After the invasion of Kuwait (by the Iraqi Army) in 1990, the Kurdish uprising in 1991, and the internal Kurdish civil war in the mid-1990s, many museum's archives were lost. Therefore, information about many of the museum's acquisitions and artifacts are not available.

Halls edit The museum's building is relatively small and is divided into 3 displaying halls:

The first hall houses artifacts from the pre-historic periods to the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC. Visitors will see artifacts from the Paleolithic age, Jarmo, Halaf, Samara, Ubaid, Uruk, Eridu, Early Dynastic, Akkadian, and Neo-Sumerian periods. Few items date back to the Old-Babylonian period. The second hall displays items from the Urartian, Hurrian, Assyrian (both Middle and Neo-Assyrian), Seleucid, and Hatra periods. There are no artifacts from the Neo-Babylonian period. The last hall contains artifacts from the Sassanid and Islamic periods (mostly Abbasid). Opening Hours edit The museum is open from Monday to Thursday, 9;00 AM to 1:00 PM. It is closed on holidays. The entrance is free.

Gallery edit One of the halls of the Erbil Civilization Museum, displaying Mesopotamian artifacts from the Paleolithic period to the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC One of the halls of the Erbil Civilization Museum, displaying Mesopotamian artifacts from the Paleolithic period to the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC

One of the halls of the Erbil Civilization Museum displaying artifacts from the Urartian, Hurrian, Assyrian, and Hatra periods. Iraqi Kurdistan. One of the halls of the Erbil Civilization Museum displaying artifacts from the Urartian, Hurrian, Assyrian, and Hatra periods. Iraqi Kurdistan.

Incense burner. Hurrian period, 1300-1000 BC. From Tell Basmosian (also Tell Bazmusian), modern-day Lake Dukan, Iraq. Erbil Civilization Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. A very similar (but not identical) incense burner from the same area and period is on display at the Sulaymaniyah Museum. Incense burner. Hurrian period, 1300-1000 BC. From Tell Basmosian (also Tell Bazmusian), modern-day Lake Dukan, Iraq. Erbil Civilization Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. A very similar (but not identical) incense burner from the same area and period is on display at the Sulaymaniyah Museum.

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The beginnings of establishing the Erbil Civilization Museum in the mid-sixties of the last century were very simple and did not exceed a simple building located in the Al-Manara locality that was within the Erbil Antiquities Inspectorate. As for its assets, it did not contain a large number of artifacts at that time. In the mid-seventies of the last century, the museum moved to Erbil Citadel in the house of (Ahmed Chalabi) This house was officially used as a museum, and in 1985 a new museum was started in Tal Qaling Agha, where the construction was completed in all its aspects in 1989 and the museum officially moved to this site. Its ruins date back to 5,000 BC and reflect the patterns and methods of private life in Kurdistan and Iraq, and there is a library rich in cultural...

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