Interview Twelve
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: May 21, 2024
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2024.03, File 12
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content: Archival materials
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content: This session focuses on the rehabilitation of the National Museum of Afghanistan after 2002. After years of destruction and challenges, the years after 2002 saw new opportunities for progress at the National Museum of Afghanistan. Mr. Masoudi discusses how connections with the outside world expanded significantly; the prioritization of reconstructing the museum building and preservation, treatment and cleaning of artifacts; how aid impacted the museum's work; individuals, organizations, and countries that provided aid; efforts to construct a new museum building; and work to reopen the museum to the public.