National Museum of Kabul
The Kabul National Museum (Mūzah-'i Kābul) is the national archaeological museum of Afghanistan in the capital Kabul .
It was founded in 1920. The museum is located in a two-story building in the historic old town of Kabul. The collection, which is important in Central Asia and has over 100,000 exhibits , was looted in August and September 1996, during the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Parts of the exhibition were therefore relocated to the Afghanistan Museum, which existed in Bubendorf , Switzerland, from 1999 to 2006, and returned to Kabul in 2007 after the security situation in Afghanistan had improved. In 2003, the international community donated $ 350,000 to renovate the building. The collection has many ivory treasures as well as antiques from the Kushana period , early Buddhism and Islam .
literature
- Afghanistan. Saved treasures. The collection of the National Museum in Kabul , Verlag Museumshop De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-78653-20-2 (also exhibition catalog of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany Bonn).
- Afghanistan, les trésors retrouvés. Collections du Musée National de Kaboul , Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, December 6, 2006 - April 30, 2007. Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-7118-5218-5
- Catalog of the National Museum of Afghanistan , Francine Tissot, UNESCO Publishing (Art, Museums and Monuments series), Paris 2006. ISBN 978-92-3-104030-6
Web links
- Afghanistan - Hidden Treasures slide shows with audio commentary, including about the Kabul Museum, on National Geographic Online (English)
- http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/Afghanistan/Units/33.html
- http://www.afghan-aid.de/museum-afghanistan.htm
- http://www.bamiyan.de Recordings of art objects in the Museum Kabul and from many other places in Afghanistan, by Volker Thewalt
- http://iranica.com/articles/kabul-museum History of the Kabul National Museum in the Encyclopaedia Iranica (English).
Coordinates: 34 ° 28 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 69 ° 7 ′ 11.6 ″ E