A Museum in Baghdad is a story of treasured history, desperate choices and the British archaeologist Gertrude Bell. In 1926, with the nation of Iraq in its infancy, she founds a museum in Baghdad.
In 2006, Ghalia Hussein is attempting to reopen the museum after looting during the war.
Decades apart, these two women share the same goals — to create a fresh sense of unity and nationhood, to make the world anew through the museum and its treasures.
But in such unstable times, Hannah Khalil’s play A Museum in Baghdad, asks questions about who the museum is for, whose culture is being preserved — and does it matter when people are dying?
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