Interview Nine
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: April 5, 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 9
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content: Archival materials
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content: This session focuses on the state of the museum during and after the Taliban's fall in 2001. Mr. Masoudi describes how the National Museum of Afghanistan was subject to looting; working with journalists to report the state of the museum; changes in the museum following the Bonn Conference (December 5, 2001), including Mr. Masoudi appointed acting director; revitalizing the museum focused on: reconstruction of the building, rebuilding departments, conservation  and restoration treatment, skill building; Paul Bucherer's contributions; collaboration with Tokyo University of the Arts; collaboration with the British Museum; finding funds for building repairs; and restoration of artifacts and resuming exhibitions.