After years of closure… Aleppo National Museum opens its doors to visitors and archaeologists

Aleppo-Sana

After being closed for years due to the terrorist war on Syria, the National Museum of Aleppo today reopened its doors to visitors and archaeologists in a civilized celebration confirming the return of life to Al-Shahba to display more than 50,000 pieces of its archaeological treasures, which represent the living witnesses of the ancient civilizations that have progressed to the region.

Director General of Antiquities and Museums Dr. Mahmoud Hammoud told reporters that the reopening of the museum after its closure for eight years is a declaration of the return of life to this important cultural and international facility because of its holdings and received rare antiquities representing the civilizations of the valley of Khabour and Euphrates and the central region and Idlib and Aleppo, a message of knowledge and love Salam asserts that our people have won over injustice, aggression, terrorism and ignorance.

Hammoud pointed to the role of the Directorate of Antiquities in saving the contents of the museum and its transfer to Damascus when Aleppo was exposed to terrorist shells on a daily basis and in the restoration of the museum sections as a result of the long destruction, indicating that these works were done in cooperation with Japan and the United Nations Development Program.

For his part, Director of Aleppo Antiquities Khaled Masri said that the re-opening of the museum is a message to the world that Shahba shake off the dust of terrorism and come back to life again, recalling that the museum opened its doors to receive visitors in 1931 and in 1966 witnessed a new breakthrough with a modern construction to display tens of thousands of pieces and thrown .

The curator of the main museum in Aleppo Museum, Ahmed Othman, in turn, talked about the richness of the museum in archaeological pieces in the world, which dates back to the oldest civilizations that originated in Syria and in the region. Classical, Islamic and Modern Art. ”

SANA surveyed a number of local and foreign researchers and historians on the importance of reopening the museum, where Eng. Tamim Qasmo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ordinary Society in Aleppo, explained that the Society has been interested in this edifice, considering that the reopening and completion of its restoration work is a return to the ancient history of Aleppo Completion of the rest of the museum halls damaged by terrorism.

Dr. Tawfiq al-Boushi, director of the Japanese Center for Academic Cooperation at the University of Aleppo, considered that the opening of the museum is evidence of Syria's victory over terrorism and represents a breakthrough towards reconstruction.

Professor Kaikol Meyer of the Technical University of Berlin, who has worked in Syria since 1970, highlighted the importance of the reopening of the Aleppo Museum, which is part of the reconstruction process in Syria, expressing his delight at this step, which comes in the context of the reconstruction of the whole country and the return of normal life.

French archaeologist Francis Pinochet, who has been in Syria for 40 years, said the opening of the museum is helping to bring together culture, thought and science, an important asset for the city of Aleppo, whose people have suffered from terrorism and great destruction.

Qusai Razzouk

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