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quinta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2014

The Museums of Ghazni, Afghanistan


The Museum of Islamic Art in Rauza, a suburb of Ghazni, was first opened by the Italian Archaeological Mission in 1966. The Museum, which was housed in the restored sixteenth-century Mausoleum of Abd al-Razzaq, showcased the artifacts of the Islamic period that the Italian Archaeological Mission had unearthed in their first ten years of excavations.


The minaret of Ghazni © Unesco/ F. Rivière

The Italian government sponsors a project to rehabilitate and reopen two museums they started working on decades ago.




In the second half of the 1970’s the Italian Mission began work on a Museum of Pre-Islamic Art in the town of Ghazni, which would showcase pre-Islamic artifacts including those from the Buddhist site of Tapa Sardar. However, in 1979, as the political situation devolved into violence, construction of the Museum of Pre-Islamic Art had to stop. As fighting increased in the 1980’s, the Museum of Islamic Art was closed. During the years of war that followed, the Mausoleum which housed the Museum of Islamic Art and the Buddhist site of Tapa Sardur which was the source of much of the Museum of Pre-Islamic Art’s collection were damaged.

Now, nearly forty years after the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art, the Italian government, through its Funds-in-Trust contribution, is sponsoring the rehabilitation of these two museums. Miraculously, much of each museum’s collection remains unscathed. This three-year project aims to reactivate the basic structures of Afghanistan's cultural heritage and to train personnel who are specialized in managing and preserving it.

Expected results:
Making the Mausoleum of Abdul Razzaq functional again, and re-equipping the Islamic Museum;
Completing the unfinished building to house the Pre-Islamic Museum;
Equipping the Pre-Islamic Museum;
Installing a small Restoration Workshop at the Pre-Islamic Museum;
Beginning training courses for restoration technicians, museum management and the excavation of clay structures and objects;
Creating employment potential in an area which is expected to develop considerably.

Expected duration: Three years, 2004-2007. (Note: Security concerns in the Ghazni area have slowed the implementation of this project, and no significant progress has been made in the first year)
 
fonte: @edisonmariotti #edisonmariotti http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=37019&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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