National Museum of Afghanistan

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The National Museum of Afghanistan is the country’s principal museum, renowned for its rich collection of archaeological and cultural artifacts that reflect Afghanistan’s ancient and diverse heritage.

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Label Occurrences
National Museum of Afghanistan canonical 2
Kabul Museum 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf museum
national museum
architecturalStyle modernist
category Museums in Kabul
National museums of Asia
collectionType Bactrian Gold artifacts
Bronze Age artifacts
Buddhist art
Gandharan artifacts
Greco-Bactrian artifacts
Islamic art
Ivory carvings from Begram
Kushan period artifacts
archaeological artifacts
cultural artifacts
ethnographic objects
numismatic collection
country Afghanistan
established 1919
exhibition Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
formerName National Museum of Afghanistan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kabul Museum
hasCollectionFrom Bactria
Kamboja–Gandhara region
surface form: Gandhara

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
Islamic period in Afghanistan
Kushan Empire
hasFunction preservation of Afghan cultural heritage
public education
research
hasOnlinePresence official website
languageOfSignage Dari
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
locatedIn Afghanistan
Kabul Province
location Kabul
near Darul Aman Palace
ownedBy Afghan administration
surface form: Government of Afghanistan
partner British Museum
International Council of Museums
Musée Guimet
UNESCO
reopened 2004
significance major repository of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage
principal museum of Afghanistan
sufferedEvent Afghan Civil War
destruction of artifacts by Taliban
looting

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Kabul hasLandmark National Museum of Afghanistan
National Museum of Afghanistan formerName National Museum of Afghanistan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kabul Museum
Hadda findsNowIn National Museum of Afghanistan