The Museum of Raqqa, also known as the Ar-Raqqah Museum or Rakka Museum ( ar, مَتْحَفُ الرَّقَّةِ, Matḥaf ar-Raqqah), is a museum in

Raqqa Raqqa ( ar, ٱلرَّقَّة, ar-Raqqah, also and ) (Kurdish languages, Kurdish: Reqa/ ڕەقە) is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. T ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

founded in 1981. The structure housing the museum was built in 1861 and served as an Ottoman governmental building. The museum is dedicated to the preservation of the culture of the Raqqa province. The museum notably curates large collections gathered from the excavation researches led in the region of

Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Sabi Abyad ( ar, تل صبي أبيض) is an archaeological site in the Balikh River valley in northern Syria. It lies about 2 kilometers south of Tell Hammam et-Turkman.The site consists of four prehistoric mounds that are numbered Tell Sab ...

, Tell Bi'a,

Tell Chuera Tell Chuera is an ancient Near Eastern tell site in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria. It lies between the Balikh and Khabur rivers. Archaeological research The site was first described by Max von Oppenheim in 1913. Excavations were begun in 1 ...

, Tell Munbaqa, and various artefacts dating back to

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and

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s, as well as more recent objects from the Islamic period (notably the epoch of Haroun al-Rachid) and from the time of the

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domination. Its first floor has three sections:

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, Classical Vestiges and

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; and the second floor is dedicated to Arab and

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. At its peak, the museum housed some 7,000 artifacts from the surrounding regions. The Syrian Civil War caused damage to the museum with many of its items being stolen and destroyed during

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's rule over Raqqa. After the capture of the city by the

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in October 2017, the Raqqa Civil Council and its "Committee of Culture and Antiquities" in cooperation with the Vision (Ro’ya) Organisation, has started to restore the building and track down its stolen artifacts, beginning in early 2018.

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Syrian Ministry of Culture

raqqa Raqqa ( ar, ٱلرَّقَّة, ar-Raqqah, also and ) (Kurdish languages, Kurdish: Reqa/ ڕەقە) is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. T ...

Buildings and structures in Raqqa Art museums and galleries in Syria 1981 establishments in Syria Archaeological museums in Syria {{syria-stub

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