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Just like Berlin’s new airport (which has at least opened, almost a decade late), the one proposed at Chinchero Cusco in Peru has long been delayed.
The circumstances were similar. Originally the arrangement was a public-private partnership, but over the course of a couple of years the private sector consortium’s position became untenable, and the deal was annulled.
For a short time a project which has attracted scorn from the local media became a wholly state one, but it was not long before the private sector was again attracted, in the form of a Korean consortium, this time just to build it.
“I remember my first time there,” Richard Kurin, an ambassador-at-large for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, told Artnet News. “It was a total war zone.” He was among the first to visit the museum after the occupation ended.
A joint Iraqi-Smithsonian team works to document the damage in the Mosul Cultural Museum’s Assyrian Hall in February 2019. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.
In addition to missing artifacts, some 25,000 volumes from the museum library had been burned and the buildings themselves had suffered considerable damage, most notably an 18-foot-long hole in the floor of the Assyrian hall, caused by a bomb. In minutes, ISIS had wrought destruction that would take years to repair.
Smithsonian partners with Iraqi authorities and international heritage consortium to rehabilitate Mosul Museum
Saad Ahmed, the Mosul Cultural Museums head of conservation (left), and Zaid Ghazi Saadullah, the museums director, examine a wood cenotaph in the Mosul Cultural Museums Islamic Hall in February 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- The building and collection of Iraqs Mosul Cultural Museum suffered tremendous damage at the hands of the Islamic State group. Now, the museum is gradually being brought back to life through a unique international partnership between the Smithsonian Institution, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), the Musée du Louvre, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH). Since 2018, the founding members of this consortium have been stabilizing the building and collection in preparation for the full-scale rehabilitation. The goal is to return this museum to the