Dear Kay and everyone
Here are other exhibition catalogues of treasures from the
National Museum of Iraq in Bagdad - alas former treasures.
Mesopotamsk kultur ghennon 10.000 ar. National Gallery, Oslo (May
14-August 1,1977)
36 pages, 12 illustrations
Schatze aus dem Irak von der Fruhzeit bis zum
Islam. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne (June 27-Sept. 20,1964)
115 pages, 80 illustrations, 6 in colour
Exhibition of Tigris-Euphrates civilization. National Museum, Tokyo (March
1-April 14,1974)
150 pages, mostly coloured illustrations
And, I would add to your excellent comments on the situation, that I am
glad there are some treasures from the ancient middle east civilizations
preserved with more regard to their value at the British Museum, the
Ashmolean Museum, Harvard and some other locations. Disregard for heritage
or culture is reminiscent of the destruction of the great Buddhas in
Afghanistan.
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Diana E.M. Cooper 604-822-3943
Fine Arts Reference Librarian
Fine Arts Library
University of British Columbia
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Kay Streng wrote:
> Dear ARLIS-L,
> Reading about the looting of The National Museum of Iraq over the weekend I began to wonder if a catalog of its collections had ever been published at any point in its history. A search of WoCat using the authorized name of the museum (Mat haf al-Iraqi) doesn't bring up anything. An article in the Sun. NYTimes, "Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of its Treasure," refers to the exhibition catalog, "Silk Road Civilizations" (held in Nara, Japan in 1988) in which items from the museum were featured.
> Does anyone out there know of anything else?
> Thank you,
> Kay Streng
> Minneapolis College of Art & Design Library
>
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