Baghdad University Museum Represents an Idea and a Creativity

  Because of the ancient heritage of the university of Baghdad the idea of founding the University of Baghdad museum has emerged to record and document and preserve this great heritage .Baghdad University Museum was founded in 2007 under the guidance of the former President of the University of Baghdad, professor Dr. Musa al-Musawi and it has been rehabilitated and renovated in accordance with the technical and aesthetic standards of high quality and re-opened on 13 / 3/2013 in the era of the presidency of Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein Rasul on 20/3/2013 and it has been disconnected from sport and artistic activity department and has been linked directly to the President of the University of Baghdad being aware of the importance of the museum in the university life.

  The director of the museum , assistant professor Dr.Hayder Hamid Rasheed has confirmed that the support given by the former President of the University and the recent one has a significant impact on what the museum has reached , besides the sincere efforts made by the reconstruction team of the museum to make it worthy of our University and the new look of the museum is not less than the museums of the world. This is the testimony of those who visited and see the museum .

  The museum has currently more than 300 images representing the historical stages of the University, since it was founded in 1957 and until now, arranged according to the years of the founding of its colleges , institutes and centers, and a particular side of the museum has singled out featuring historical photos of the presidency of the University including oil paintings of the presidents of the University of Baghdad since its foundation until the end of the presidency of Prof. Dr. Musa al-Musawi , a museum also includes a large number of historical memorabilia of the University representing different stages that are rich of scientific achievements at various levels. It also has an electronic museum which is a screen (LED) number (2) through which documentary recordings of the University of Baghdad has been displayed as well as the historical images that can not be displayed inside the halls of the museum and the electronic museum is being controlled by the room of the director of the museum across a computer that is prepared for this purpose and the museum is supplied with the Internet, which is used for the purpose of collecting documentary photos of Baghdad University and their own recordings and whatever is related to the University of Baghdad and the museum is collecting the heritage and history of the University of Baghdad.

  Baghdad University Museum is part of the project of building the historical memory of the university , it is the main memory center. The colleges, institutes and centers are the secondary memory which provides the university museum annually of all its activities for the purpose of documenting them .

  The first meeting of the liaison members of Baghdad University Museum has been held in Dr. Jawad Ali’s Hall in the development and continuing education center .Through the meeting a discussion of the ways to develop the performance of the Museum and museums of Baghdad University formations , as well as clarifying the work and functions of the liaison member in accordance with the tasks that have been limited in advance of (14 points) and were discussed in details with the liaison members during the meeting. It was decided unanimously that a meeting of the liaison members should be quarterly and the members suggested also the idea that the President of the University of Baghdad should write his memoirs and that will become a tradition with the other presidents of the University of Baghdad to document each stage of the life of the university , one can visit the link below which contains some archival photos of the University of Baghdad:

http://www.uobaghdad.edu.iq/Museum/index.html

During the meeting, the tasks of a liaison member came as follows:

  1. The University of Baghdad Museum is the main saving Centre of Baghdad University heritage to be preserved from loss and the formations of the university from colleges , institutes and centers which are the secondary memory saving center .
  2. The liaison member of the University formations will document their activities and save them in the secondary memory center as part of the heritage of the formation which is not for media only, but to preserve this heritage .
  3. The secondary memory center consists of a computer where activities are saved as an important part of scientific and cultural activities that should not be cancelled in any way. Preferably the museum should be provided with LED d or LCD screens placed in a suitable place as an electronic museum , where the heritage of the mentioned formation is displayed to let the students, faculty and visitors know about the heritage and culture.
  4. The University of Baghdad Museum is the main center for the preservation, documentation and archiving.
  5. The liaison member directs the departments of his institutions to document their activities.
  6. Emphasizing on the administration of the website in the college or institute or center to keep the photos and videos displayed on the site and save them in the archive as part of the heritage of the college or institute or center.
  7. Preserving the old collections and considered them as part of the heritage of the formation and keeping the new and clean including at least three
  8. The liaison member should supply the University of Baghdad Museum annually with the activities of the institute or center and put them onto a CD for the purpose of preservation at Baghdad University Museum /main memory center.
  9. With the start of the new academic 2014 – 2015 the activities of the Cultural Forum that belongs to the Museum of the University of Baghdad , among the activities is hosting pioneer professors, who studied at the University of Baghdad and became a significant social, cultural and political personality to talk about his experience in the field of teaching at the University of Baghdad and his memories as part of documenting the historical memory of the University of Baghdad.
  10. facilitate the work of the University of Baghdad museum to get some rare old documents belonging to the professors and well-known personalities for displaying them in the Museum of the University of Baghdad.
  11. The liaison member will organize quarterly visits to Baghdad University museum for students, faculty members and staff.


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