Renewed face

Since 2016, the National Museum has been providing aid to Syria on the basis of a government program in rescuing war-damaged world cultural heritage. As part of this program, collection items were transported from the National Museum in Damascus to be restored by the best experts from the conservation and restoration departments of the Historical Museum of the National Museum. These are 20 mostly metal artifacts from the Bronze Age (from the period 2500-1500 BC) and from Antiquity. Among the rarest objects that are on display in the Historical Building after the intervention of the National Museum restorers are bronze statuettes, a bronze needle from Ugarit and three stone tomb reliefs from Palmyra (two statues of women and one statue of a man).

The exhibition in the Historical Building is short-termed, as after two months the artifacts will be returned to Syria.