A group of Iraqi museum prefessionals will be coming to the US to study conservation and restoration techniques. “Scholars at the Smithsonian have been discussing for months how to assist their colleagues, especially those at the Iraq National Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad, which was ransacked after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship last April. ‘The best way is through a practicum, where we can help establish practical methods of conservation, registration and preservation’.”