The Looting of the Iraq Museum
Dr. Donny George will discuss the looting of Iraq Museum after the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Date/Time
Friday, April 9, 2010 - Friday, April 9, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
Cost
Free and open to the public
Event Notes:
Directions, parking and location of the John Roach Center for the Arts can be found at www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps. Parking is available at the new Anderson Parking Ramp located at the corner of Grand and Cretin Ave.
Click to open poster for Dr. Donny George lecture, Looting of the Iraq Museum
Bulletin Today article on Dr. George lecture
Dr. Donny George, the Iraq Museum's former Director-General will present a lecture Friday, April 9th in the John Roach Center for the Arts. George's lecture will give a complete account of the cultural losses suffered by the Iraq Museum and the 12,500 archaeological sites after the invasion of Iraq. Dr. George will also present a lecture, The Discovery of the Nimrud Treasures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on Saturday, April 10th at 11 a.m.
The Art of War - Adam Minter wrote an article for based on his conversation with Corey Weigner, a curator at the MIA and an Army rreservist who was deployed to Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. The article is courtesy of Secrets of the City and publisher Kris Henning, and was posted in the Rake on July 22, 2004. 
Images of recovered art from the Iraq National Museum
