Western Scholars, Curators Offer To Help Iraq Museum

Concerned archeologists, scholars, conservators and arts administrators in the West have been meeting in recent weeks to try to find ways to help Baghdad’s National Museum, which was looted in April. There still isn’t enough information about losses at the museum to take definitive definitive action, but “we are also very concerned that the inventory of the museum’s collection be done by individuals with academic and museum qualifications, not the military, and that guards and other people who worked in the museums be rehired.”