Nat. Museum Afghanistan (National Museum of Afghanistan)

The first museum in Afghanistan was established in 1919 at the Bagh-i-Bala palace overlooking Kabul, and consisted of manuscripts, miniatures, weapons and art objects belonging to the former royal families. A few years later the collection was moved to the king's palace in the centre of the city and in 1931 it was officially installed in the present building. The original collection was expanded, starting in 1922, by the first excavations of the Délégation Archéologique Française in Afghanistan (DAFA). Through the years, other archaeological delegations have added their finds to the museum until today the collection spans fifty millenniums: Prehistoric, Classical, Buddhist, hindu and Islamic art and stands as one of the greatest testimonies of antiquity that the world has inherited.