(19 May 2025)
IRAQ HISTORY MUSEUM
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baghdad, Iraq – 16 May 2025
1. Various of family looking at a scene in a museum that shows traditional life in Baghdad
2. Various of traditional home and people in traditional outfits
3. Various of scene of women preparing bride for her wedding
4. Various of people looking at scene depicting traditional carpetmaker
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Basim Mohammed, director of museum:
"The Baghdadi Museum is the memory of generations. It has preserved costumes, dialects, names of things, professions and crafts."
6. Various of people visiting different sections in the museum
7. Visitor checking statue
8. People reading information about scenes at the museum
9. Various of wax statues of men at wrestling center
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Basim Mohammed, director of museum:
“Every item in the Baghdadi Museum represents a piece of Baghdadi houses and is part of the norms and traditions of Baghdad locals. Without the Baghdadi Museum, the memory will be lost, the heritage will be erased, and we would not be able to learn about the social and political norms as well as the glorious history of Baghdad.”
11. Various of visitors at the museum
12. Various of scene depicting wedding, showing figures playing instruments and wedding attendees as well as women watching from window
13. Walk-by shot inside corridor of the museum
14. People posing for photos in the museum
15. Scene depicting bride at wedding party
16. People inside museum
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Saadoun, visitor:
"Today, we are at the Baghdadi Museum and I brought my grandson Hamoudi with me to show him our genuine Baghdadi heritage, which dates back to roughly 100-150 years ago. We have seen some of this (in our lifetime). I was born in 1959 and I have seen some of what we see now inside the museum."
18. Walk-by shot of scene depicting market street
19. Various of vintage car with Baghdad license plate inside museum
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Saadoun, visitor:
"It is the genuine Baghdadi heritage, a heritage that we want to show to younger generations because they didn’t see it. So he is one of the kids in the new generation that hopefully will understand how Baghdad used to be, the history of Baghdad, and the simplicity that existed before."
21. Various of traditional tea house
22. Engraving on wall reading (Arabic): "Baghdadi Museum"
23. Entrance of museum
STORYLINE:
A museum in Baghdad takes visitors on a journey back in time through scenes that depict everyday life in the Iraqi capital over the past 150 years.
It introduces Iraqis to the places, traditions, outfits, crafts and celebrations of life in a simpler time.
"The Baghdadi Museum is the memory of generations," said Basim Mohammed, the director of the Baghdadi Museum.
The museum, established in 1970, contains 385 life-sized wax statues that depict more than 75 scenes including a wedding, a cafe and a market area.
The museum closed its doors for five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, reopening again in 2008.
Visitor Ahmad Saadoun brought his grandson to the museum to teach him about how people lived in the past.
"I was born in 1959 and I have seen some of what we see now inside the museum," he said.
"It is the genuine Baghdadi heritage, a heritage that we want to show to younger generations because they didn’t see it," Saadoun added.
The Baghdadi Museum is located in a building that dates back to the 1860s and sits along the banks of the Tigris River.
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