Erbil Museum (Erbil City)

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Erbil Civilization Museum

It lies at the Municipality Street, near Francoise Hareeri International Stadium. It is composed of the administration office, three galleries, and a store.
The museum contains more than 700 archeological pieces, found in different places and times. The small number of pieces in the museum may be due to the past administrative systems of the directorates of archeological riches, which transported most of the important archeological pieces to Baghdad, to place them at the Iraqi Museum, the largest museum in the country.
The first gallery contains pieces from the Paleolithic age discovered in the caves of Shanidar and Hezar Merd, and ageing back to 45-60 thousand years B.c And there are pieces going back to the last seven centuries B.C The second gallery contains archeological pieces from the Urartians and Hurrians (Khurrites) ages, the age of New Assyrians, the age of Seleucids, Parthians, and other. The third gaallery specified to antique of the Islamic era.