萨达姆现代艺术博物馆的部分20世纪伊拉克艺术收藏被塞进了巴格达海法(Haifa)大街上的一座大型博物馆三个不起眼的展厅内。这座曾经是著名当代艺术中心的建筑现在变成了被砖瓦、铁丝网和沙袋加固的办公部门集中的区域。上百件艺术品被打包放进了闷热而又尘土飞扬的储藏室,由一位工作人员照看着。有许多油画都有不同程度的损坏,当地危险的局势、缺乏保护计划、 Part of the Twentieth Century Iraqi Art Collection at Saddam’s Museum of Modern Art was packed into three humble pavilions in a large museum on the Haifa Street in Baghdad. This former center of contemporary art, now a center of contemporary office furniture, has become a concentrated area of ​​offices reinforced by brick, barbed wire and sandbags. Hundreds of artwork were packaged in a hot, dusty storage room and looked after by a staff member. Many paintings have varying degrees of damage, dangerous local situations, lack of protection programs,