Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad reopened to the public on Monday after being closed for three years following political unrest in the region that threatened the museum’s security. Iraq’s prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, officially inaugurated the reopening of the museum on Sunday. The newly renovated national museum had closed its doors in 2019 amid escalating anti-government protests in Baghdad. Home to artifacts dating from ancient Mesopotamian, Abbasid, and Persian civilizations, the institution was originally founded in the 1920s as a part of a cultural initiative led by a British archeologist.
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