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

Raqqa Raqqa (, also , Kurdish language, Kurdish: ''Reqa'') is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and b ...

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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 () is an archaeological site in the Balikh River valley in northern Syria. It lies about 2 kilometers north-east of Tell Hammam et-Turkman.The site consists of four prehistoric mounds that are numbered Tell Sabi Abyad I to IV. Ext ...

, Tell Bi'a,

Tell Chuera Tell Chuera (also Tell Ḫuera and Tall Ḥuwaira and Tall Chuera and Tell Khuera) is an ancient Near Eastern Tell (archaeology), tell site in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria. It lies between the Balikh River, Balikh and Khabur (Euphrates), Khab ...

, 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 (, also , Kurdish language, Kurdish: ''Reqa'') is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and b ...

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