☀️ 360° Kurdish Textile Museum | Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
A very short 360° video of the Kurdish Textile Museum, which is located in Erbil's famous citadel. The museum displays the different weaving products throughout Kurdistan in a historical context, as well as being a mini ethnographic museum for Kurdish culture in general. Go to the nice cafe on the top floor - it has a good view of the citadel and the city below! =] ☀️
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Citadel museum preserves Kurdish culture
Citadel museum preserves Kurdish culture
ERBIL -- An important attraction to the city of Erbil as the Arab Capital of Tourism of 2014. That is how the revitalized Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum is seen, that was reopened in the centuries' old citadel of the Kurdistan capital Erbil.
Here the Kurdish culture is kept from oblivion, says Erbil mayor Nihad Qoja proudly about the museum. After the Gulf War of 1991 much has been lost, but the museum has succeeded in preserving a part of our culture and presenting it very nicely.
He is full of praise for Lolan Sipan, a Swedish Kurd who ten years ago set up a carpet museum in one of the last built mansions in a corner of the citadel. The house built in de nineteen thirties and given to him by the Ministry of Culture was in bad repair, like most of the almost 600 buildings on the eleven hectares of the 8000 years old citadel. It is considered the oldest permanently inhabited location in the region.
Even before the reconstruction of the citadel started, Sipan already had renovated and opened a small museum. He had filled it with carpets that he collected from the four Kurdish regions. Its shop soon was discovered by tourists visiting Iraqi Kurdistan as the only place they could buy souvenirs.
Even so, in 2008 he was ordered by the High Council for Erbil Citadel Revitalization (HCECR) to evacuate his museum as part of the reconstruction activities. Only the support of the many local and foreign officials that had visited and admired the museum could save it.
A long struggle between Sipan and the council had only just started. Last year it led to a last minute ban on the opening of a tea house he had set up in the citadel.
The matter seems to have been settled, as the council is one of the funders of the recent restoration. When buildings around him were restored with Italian, French, Czech and German money, Sipan also found some foreign funding. He started a major reconstruction, with his British architect even adding part of a second floor.
The museum and the shop have been closed for over two years. I had expected to reopen years ago, Lolan Sipan says on the opening night. I have lost the pride for what we accomplished because of all the barriers that were put up.
With heartfelt emotion he explains the urgency to protect the Kurdish weaving culture. Erbil was the cosmopolitan capital of nomadic tribes and the centre of weaving, and this goes back thousands of years as we can see from the patterns in the carpets, he says.
For centuries, nomadic tribes would stay in the Erbil Plains in the winter and on the meadows of the high mountains on the Iraq-Iran border during the summer. But Saddam Hussein's Anfal operation that killed 180.000 Kurds and destroyed thousands of villages changed everything, says Sipan. Tribes were relocated, and in the eighties the weaving tradition died.
With American funding, he set up a weaving project, first in the museum and later elsewhere in the citadel, where the last surviving weaving women taught young girls their trade. The young women are now using these skills to acquire an income, but because of the closure of the museum we had zero sales, Sipan says.
German Consul General Alfred Simms-Protz predicts Sipan's problems with the council should be over now. After officials visit the museum, nobody will want to close it anymore. This is something to be proud of. And Sipan is the best man for the job.
Germany paid a third of the 300.000 dollars needed for the renovation, and Simms-Protz states that he is very happy with what has been done with this 'relatively moderate sum'. Using words like 'wonderful' and 'fantastic' he praises the new displays: Even the labeling is done well and in correct English.
The museum was upgraded by adding samples of traditional Kurdish costumes, of tools, pots and other objects of daily life and even some long play records with Kurdish music. The name was therefore changed to Textile and Cultural Museum. The banned tea house has moved here, and will be open daily.
The consul calls all this a major attraction. First for the locals, to see what their ancestors did, and secondly for the tourists. We will be bringing all our guests here.
For the moment, the museum will remain the main attraction of the citadel, as most of the streets have long been closed. This is because of danger of buildings collapsing, says Erbil major Nihad Qoja. He agrees that this is an unwelcome feature during the Arab Tourism Year. As a member of the High Council for the citadel, I will try my best to change it soon, he promises.
Presentation of the Kurdish Textile Museum 2012
Presentation of the Kurdish Textile Museum (Deisser 2012)
Daniel Libeskind Kurdistan museum
Slemani Museum Sulaymaniyeh Kurdistan Iraq January 2014
Slêmanî museum in Kurdistan is paying smugglers to return looted treasure
(CNN) -- Iraq's second largest museum in Sulaimaniya is recovering stolen artifacts by paying smugglers to return the treasures.
Located in the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani Museum has taken drastic measures to refill display cabinets following looting.
The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don't buy back looted objects because it encourages looting. Simple. Full stop, says Stuart Gibson, director of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.
The Kurdish authorities took a very difficult and I must admit a very courageous position and they said we are going to buy these objects, he added.
Iraq has struggled with looters, most notably in 2003 when thieves sacked the National Museum in Baghdad stealing treasures dating thousands of years to the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia.
Original estimates said 170,000 pieces had been looted from the museum. However, authorities say it was closer to around 15,000 artifacts, of which 6,000 had been recovered by the time the museum reopened in 2009.
While paying smugglers for the return of lost treasures is a controversial move on the part of the museum, it seems to have worked in this instance. One of the recently-recovered artifacts is an ancient democratic text that smugglers asked just $600 for.
It's a full Sumerian text written during the old Babylonian period, around 1,800-900 B.C., says Dr. Farouk Al-Rawi, a professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
It is the first document to tell us about democracy. It concerns the establishment of two assemblies, he added.
The return of this tablet to the museum is ironic considering that thousands of years later, Iraq is still trying to establish a semblance of a democracy.
Despite the Slemani Museum's unorthodox move, smuggling has decreased in the region in part due to the growing awareness of the problem and a joint effort by authorities. But organizations say more help is needed to stop thieves.
The museum's director Hashim Abdulla says that in the region of Kurdistan there are still thousands of undiscovered sites yet to be excavated.
He points out a recent site in a small village 20 minutes outside of Sulaimaniya. Artifacts at this location have dated back to the Assyrian period, almost 3,000 years ago.
Under Kurdistan regional governmental laws the site should become a protected area but in reality in many cases those laws are too difficult to implement.
From Arwa Damon, CNN
December 13, 2011 -- Updated 1647 GMT (0047 HKT)
☀️ 360° Inside Erbil Citadel | Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
A 360° video taken from inside of the famous Citadel of Erbil, the ancient castle that forms the centre of the modern capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan! =] ☀️
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0:00 A view from the Citadel of the City Centre/Shar Park
0:25 The giant Kurdistan flag in the middle of the Citadel
1:46 Erbil Stones & Gemstones Museum
2:09 Kurdish Textile Museum
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Camera: Ricoh Theta S ( )
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How to view the 360° video:
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Use your mouse or trackpad to change your view while the video plays.
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The Kurdish Textile Museum, conservation as a process of representation (Deisser 2012)
Erbil Citadel Antique & (Stones) museum قەڵای هەولێر و مۆزەخانەی بەرد و گەوهەر وئەنتیکە خانە
Erbil Citadel Antique & (Stone and Gems) museum in Kurdistan Region/ Iraq قەڵای هەولێر و مۆزەخانەی بەرد و گەوهەر وئەنتیکە خانە
Kurdish reed screens
Making a stunning, traditionally decorated Kurdish nomadic reed screen at the Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum, Erbil, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.
A practical demonstration of ancient nomadic skills, and a few examples of reed screens.
Kurd Part 1
In this clip, Kate does her pre-inspection evaluation and discusses her strategy for dealing with the issues to bring this rug back to life. Visit for more.
☀️ 360° Syriac Heritage Museum | Erbil, Kurdistan
A short 360° video of the Syriac Heritage Museum, located in the Christian quarter - Ankawa - of the KRG capital of Erbil. The museum is a gem of the region and preserves a lot of the same culture, history and artefacts that have been destroyed in museums across Iraq and Syria in the past few years! =]
Hopefully this panorama gives some food for thought for the preconceptions most have about actual life in Iraq/Iraqi Kurdistan/Middle East, especially at the current time!
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How to view the 360° video:
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Use your mouse or trackpad to change your view while the video plays.
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Building the story of the kurds - Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind Architect of The Kurdistan Museum
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24)
– The world-renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind, is designing The Kurdistan Museum, in conjunction with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The new facility will be located in Erbil, at the base of the city’s ancient citadel.
A long-time resident of New York, Libeskind is also the master planner for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) complex, including the towers destroyed on 9/11, as well as a 9/11 museum and memorial.
Kurdistan 24 met Libeskind at the conference, “Halabja: Echoes of Genocide in Kurdistan,” which was held by the KRG in Washington on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of Saddam’s Hussein’s brutal chemical attack.
The planned museum is “really the museum of the Kurdish people,” Libeskind told Kurdistan 24. It will represent the story of “their struggles and achievements,” of their history.
But, the museum “is not only about the past—the catastrophes and genocides,” he noted. “It is also about their future.”
For Libeskind, architecture “is actually a story-telling profession,” despite the fact it uses heavy materials, such as concrete and glass.
“If you could write what architecture does, you would not need buildings.”
“There are two elements which meet” in The Kurdistan Museum, Libeskind explained. “One I call the ‘Anfal Line’—a space that represents in many ways the genocide against the Kurds.”
The other line traverses that center “into a new space, which I call the line of freedom,” he said, “since the Kurds have been fighting for their freedom,” along with their nationhood and identity, “for so many generations.”
Noting that the museum will sit at the foot of the citadel, the architect observed that the new space will open “fully” toward the city, giving “the audiences a garden” that looks over the city “and really tells the story of the hope that the Kurdish people represent, not only to themselves but to the world.”
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☀️ 360° VR Tour: Sulaymaniyah | Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
A 360° VR Tour of Sulaymaniyah ) also known as Slemani, locally - the second city of Iraqi Kurdistan and home to perhaps the more metropolitan lifestyle than the capital city of Erbil! =] ☀️
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Sulaymaniyah
Azadi Park lake (0:01)
Alan Kurdi sculpture (0:53)
Rollerskating in Azadi Park (1:51)
Grand Mosque (2:46)
Chatty faithful (3:34)
Slemani Museum (4:18)
Amna Suraka prison-turned-museum (5:11) [Museum courtyard (5:31)
Guard Tower (5:52)
Military booty (6:11)
Vehicle (6:35)
Inside tank (6:55)
Large Tank (7:16)
Memorial sculpture (7:39)
Bullet-ridden prison administration building (8:01)
Tree tunnel (8:43)
Peshmerga craic (9:14).
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Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850. The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. From its foundation Sulaymaniyah was always a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nalî, Mahwi, Piramerd, Muhammed Emin Zeki Bey, Taufiq Wahby, Sherko Bekas, Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji, Bachtyar Ali, Mahmud Barzanji, Mawlawi, Mawlânâ Khâlid and Mustafa Zihni Pasha.
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Camera: Ricoh Theta S ( )
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How to view the 360° video:
Desktop using Google Chrome:
Use your mouse or trackpad to change your view while the video plays.
YouTube app on mobile:
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Google Cardboard:
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#kurdistan #sulaymaniyah #travel