Middle East
Iraq
Basra Governorate

Basra Museum

The Basrah Museum is a museum in the city of , housed in a former palace of Saddam Hussein. Its collection is related to Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Persian civilisations, as well as the history of the city itself.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Basrah
  • Also known as: “Basrah Museum”
  • Address: شارع الكونيش, العشار

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Basra International Hotel.

Hotel
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
The is a hotel on Shatt al-Arab bank in Al Ashar District, in Basrah, . The hotel was built in 1981 as the Basrah Sheraton Hotel & Casino. is situated 3 km northwest of Basra Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Basra.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a port city in , close to the border with and . It is Iraq's third largest city with a population of 2,150,000.

Basra Museum

Latitude
30.49737° or 30° 29′ 51″ north
Longitude
47.86095° or 47° 51′ 39″ east
Open location code
8H29FVW6+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4072387732
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q28114309
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Basra Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف البصرة الحضاري”
  • Armenian: “Բասրայի թանգարան”
  • Bengali: “বসরা জাদুঘর”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی بەسرە”
  • Chinese: “巴士拉博物馆”
  • Dutch: “Basra Museum”
  • Dutch: “Basrah Museum”
  • French: “musée de Bassorah”
  • French: “Musée de Bassorah”
  • Persian: “موزه بصره”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Baçorá”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Basra”
  • Russian: “Музей Басры”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Basora”
  • Urdu: “بصرہ عجائب گھر”
  • Uzbek: “Basra muzeyi”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include شعبه التاهيل الصحي البصره / الطبابه and هيئة السياحة.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Basra Museum”. Photo: PersianDutchNetwork, CC BY-SA 4.0.