Sights

Museum of Pioneer Arts

This is another old Baghdadi house, built in 1922, with rooms constructed around a central courtyard containing a fountain. It is furnished with traditional old Baghdadi furniture and has an interesting collection of paintings on display.

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Museum of Popular Heritage

This is a collection of traditional old Baghdadi houses, and contains displays of traditional crafts, such as basketwork, carpets, woodwork and metalwork.

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Baghdad Museum

Contains life-size models of the traditional life of Baghdad presented in tableau form.

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Iraqi Museum

One of the best museums in the Middle East. It has a great collection of artifacts from Sumer, Akkad and other old civilizations.

Some of the objects on display here are reproductions, with their originals removed by conquering nations to be displayed in foreign museums. The Louvre in Paris, London's British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the US all contain antiquities from ancient Mesopotamia. Some pieces have been returned, but the effective closure of the country seems to preclude any further returns for the foreseeable future. jackie more..

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