Sulaymaniyah Museum

The Slemani Museum

School children visiting the Sulaymaniyah Museum
Established	July 14, 1961
Location	Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Type	Archaeological museum
Director	Hashim Hama Abdullah
Website	slemanimuseum.org

The Sulaymaniyah Museum (Kurdish: مۆزه‌خانه‌ی سلێمانی; Arabic: متحف السليمانية), or Slemani Museum, is an archeological museum located in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is the second largest museum in Iraq, after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.^[1] It houses artifacts dating from the prehistoric period to the late Islamic and Ottoman periods. Several halls of the museum have undergone renovation work and the museum was closed to the public for refurbishment from October 1, 2018, to October 2019.