The Director Of The Met On What’s Happening At The Mosul Museum

Every bit of antiquity that was taken from Iraq, from Syria, from anywhere in the lands where Muslims rule, and brought to the Louvre, the British Museum, the Met, the museums of Turin and Berlin, has been rescued and no one should think of ever sending anything back to a Muslim land.

Here is the Director of the Met on what’s been happening in Mosul:

DIRECTOR OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 

ON THE DESTRUCTION AT THE MOSUL MUSEUM

“Speaking with great sadness on behalf of the Metropolitan, a museum whose collection proudly protects and displays the arts of ancient and Islamic Mesopotamia, we strongly condemn this act of catastrophic destruction to one of the most important museums in the Middle East. The Mosul Museum’s collection covers the entire range of civilization in the region, with outstanding sculptures from royal cities such as Nimrud, Nineveh, and Hatra in northern Iraq. This mindless attack on great art, on history, and on human understanding constitutes a tragic assault not only on the Mosul Museum, but on our universal commitment to use art to unite people and promote human understanding. Such wanton brutality must stop, before all vestiges of the ancient world are obliterated.”