Library of the Herat Museum

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Interior of the museum, 2011

The library of the Herat Museum is located in the Herat National Museum , which was founded in 1925. Like many cultural institutions in Afghanistan , the library is also at great risk, as is the Herat museum . The latter contained more than 3000 objects before 1979. In order to prevent further looting in the course of the Afghan war, the governor Muhammad Ismā 1994il moved the exhibits from the citadel of Herat to a separate building in 1994 , so that the museum could be reopened in autumn 2004. More than 1000 objects were exhibited in 57 showcases. With German support, the holdings were partially inventoried. In the absence of archaeological excavations, the oldest objects are copper arrowheads from the late 3rd millennium BC. Chr.

Some of the books in the library date back to the 15th century when Herat became the capital city under the Timurids . This includes a Torah scroll that refers to the small Jewish community in the capital. Between September and December 2008, 22 exhibits up to 3000 years old are said to have disappeared from the museum, according to Ayamuddin Ajmal, director of the Herat Department of Historic Places.

literature

  • Serge de Beaurecueil: Bibliothèque du Musée de Hérat , in: Ders .: Manuscrits d'Afghanistan , Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1964, p. 313 ff.
  • Afghanistan: Herat - Areia Antiqua (III) , 3rd Herat National Museum / Herat National Museum, archive.org, April 28, 2014

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bernard Dupaigne: Afghanistan. Monuments millénaires , Actes sud, 2007, p. 145.
  2. ^ Corruption promotes theft of cultural assets in Afghanistan , Society for Threatened Peoples, December 17, 2008.