Interview Thirteen
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: June 4, 2024
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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content: FSA.A2024.03, File 13
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content: Archival materials
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content: This session focuses on the effort to create a military museum in Afghanistan, known as the Museum of Jihad and Resistance.  Discussion moves to discuss other private museums in Afghanistan, including Ahmad Shah Sultani Museum and it's satellite locations, Fazila Jan's ethnographic museum, Shamshad TV's military museum, and Shakuko Jan ethnographic museum; various factors that assisted in the return of looted artifacts: Hirayama Foundation and Japanese collaboration; Paul Bucherer and the Afghan Museum in Exile;  and British collaboration and the British Museum; and archaeological discoveries in Afghanistan during 2002-2021.