Iraqi museum

Iraqi Museum in Baghdad is the largest museums in Iraq and the oldest founded in 1923 and is located in the Allawi Hela in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The museum contains archaeological collections chronicling the history of Mesopotamia
History
He was a small space in a building Qishleh old Oowalsraa. After several years been collecting large numbers of the inevitable result of the effects of drilling operations that were taking place in all parts of Iraq at the time was to be expansion of the Iraq Museum.
Has been moved to a private building in a safe street.
Narrowed his place with the passage of time was the idea to allocate a new building is characterized by a global museum specifications of the effects of Iraq.
A special design for the building of the Iraqi Museum in the fitness Allawi Hela of the Karkh district, a vast area which took into account the original museum building methods.
The actual opening was on the ninth of November in 1966
Reopened again in 1984, after the addition of the new building
 Contents.
Includes diverse groups from many eras, such as Sumerian eras and Assyrian, Babylonian and includes a variety of Islamic Arts.

Halls
The museum houses the Iraqi (18) Hall
Effects of prehistoric about 60 thousand years or 35 thousand years and of the effects of centuries old human (Alnadrtal) to the late Islamic Ages, and returns the effects of prehistoric (defunct old man), who discovered its effects in the areas of the northern provinces.
Effects of the early era of farming villages that extends to old (8) thousand years or 7-6 thousand years almost to the Stone Age
Era of stability in the south, where the Sumerian civilization arose
Akkadian Kingdom and the invention of writing
Ancient Babylonian era
Mini Assyrian period and modern
Mini Babylonian period and modern
Pre-Islamic periods (Sassanian)
Islamic Asralhoudarh
Dark Ages that followed the fall of Baghdad by the Mongols and the Tatars.
The order provided by the civilizations rooms where the halls of the oldest civilizations in the beginning of the museum and visiting whenever deepen as the traces of civilizations advanced to the latest up to the Islamic relics at the end of the museum
Children's Museum
Children's Museum is located within the Iraqi Museum, a mini-museum with an educational goal, connecting the idea of ​​how ancient man lived and how they learn and how they invented writing and built the village to the child.
 Iraqi Museum Library
Iraqi museum library founded in 1933, where she was by the start in the hall of the Directorate rooms and made her a few tanks has been given the observed and assigned supervision at the time maintained by the staff member and cares.
Total gift parents Carmelite in Baghdad, a gift Nafisa great regard consists of the library bus collected by the mark linguistic Father Anastas Mary Carmelite deceased in 1947 and consists of library of thousands of volumes of printed and manuscript, and what Yours gifting consists of six thousand printed volumes and a thousand and three hundred and thirty-five volumes manuscripts.
A total of firm gift Sharif in 1950, and this gift is bisected by his precious library has reached what gave him nearly a thousand volumes of Arabic publications on historical topics and literary, religious and linguistic minorities, as well as
Total gift of the British Museum in 1946 who presented the British Museum to the Iraqi Museum Library nearly four hundred folder of publications and mostly revolves around archeology, history, books and catalogs manuscript. Oriental Library
 Topics books that comprise the library
Topics on the country's affairs Middle
Archeology in particular the effects of the old Iraq
Works related to ancient languages ​​Iraq and dates of its peoples and civilizations in the Sumerian era, Babylonian and Assyrian, Sassanid and Islamic
Topics related to the Arabian Peninsula and even North Africa and Andalusia
A large body of literature researcher in the history of the Greeks and Romans and civilizations and their relics.
museum directors
Punish the management of the museum since its inception to this day:
Touch Krtrod but 1924 - 1926
Taha Baqir 1941 - 1951
Fouad travel
Dr. Faraj Bes.
Dr. Fawzi Rasheed
Dr. Subhi Anwar Rashid
Abdul Qader Hassan
Dr. joyful Khalil
Dr. Sabah Jassim Al-Shukri
Dr. Munir Yusuf
Dr. Hana Abdul Khaliq
Dr. Nawal Mutawalli
Dr. Donny George
Dr. Amira Edan