Basrah Museum

The Basrah Museum is a museum in the Iraqi city of Basra, housed in a former palace of Saddam Hussein. Its series is related to Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Persian civilisations, in addition to the history of the metropolis itself. Basra Museum opened its doorways to the general public in March 2019. The director of the museum is Qahtan Alabeed. The museum became closed in 1991, while it became among 9 museums looted through mobs against Saddam Hussein on the close of the primary Gulf War. The Basrah Museum opened its first Gallery of the Museum in September 2016.

The Friends of Basrah Museum is the organisation that raised the price range for the first gallery's installation via beneficiant corporate and person donations. FOBM obtained a UK Cultural Protection Fund Grant award in December 2016, controlled via the British Council in partnership with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to support the crowning glory of the new Basrah Museum. The London-based British Museum changed into additionally one of the Western enterprises which supported the Basrah Museum.