Mosul Museum

The Mosul Museum is the second one biggest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It changed into closely looted all through the 2003 Iraq War. Founded in 1952, the museum consisted of a small corridor till a brand new constructing became opened in 1972, containing historical Assyrian artifacts. The museums networth and containing are around 50 to eighty to 250 million in keeping with museum professionals in the course of 2013 at least. Dr. Hikmat Al-Aswad became the Director from 2004-2011. The present day director is Zaid Ghazi Saadallah.

In 2014 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant occupied the Museum because it become about to reopen after years of rebuilding. ISIL said that its statues have been against Islam and threatened to smash the museum's contents. On 26 February 2015, an afternoon after burning books from Mosul libraries,6 the group launched a video displaying the destruction of artifacts within the museum and at the archaeological web page at Nimrud, claiming the sites promoted "Idolatry". ISIL stated that additionally they intend to break the historic walls of Nineveh.