متحف الموصل | |
 Views around the Mosul Museum in the old city of Mosul in 2019 during the summer, following war with the Islamic State | |
  Location within Mosul | |
Former name | Mosul Museum of History |
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| Established | 1952 |
| Location | Mosul, Iraq |
| Coordinates | 36°20′17″N 43°08′22″E / 36.337923°N 43.139372°E |
| Type | National History Museum |
| Collections | 2,200 objects |
| Director | Zaid Ghazi Saadallah |
| Owner | Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities |
The Mosul Museum (Arabic: متحف الموصل) is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during the 2003 Iraq War.[1][2] Founded in 1952, the museum consisted of a small hall until a new building was opened in 1972, containing ancient Assyrian artifacts.[3] The museums net worth and content value are around 50 to 80 to 250 million[clarification needed] according to museum specialists during 2013 at least. Hikmat Al-Aswad was the director from 2004 to 2011. The current director is Zaid Ghazi Saadallah.
- ^ Mosul descends into chaos as even museum is looted. The Guardian. April 12, 2003
- ^ Unesco inspection finds no evidence of recent looting in Northern Iraq Archived 2008-12-22 at the Wayback Machine The Art Newspaper
- ^ Riyadh Mohammed (26 Feb 2015). "ISIS Destroys Second Largest Museum in Iraq". The Fiscal Times.