On Sunday 12 January 2025, Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna and Syriac Heritage and Museum Director Bernard Youssef received the Director of the USAID Mission, Erin Mone-Marquez, accompanied by the Director of the organisation’s Stabilisation Office, Christiane Danton, and the US Consulate in Erbil’s Public Relations Officer, Hayley King.
The delegation toured the museum’s halls and viewed its collections and archaeological finds, expressing their admiration for the work accomplished and the progress made in the projects implemented by the museum in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), especially the USAID-sponsored project “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Minorities in Iraq,” in order to archive the Syriac heritage and make it available to researchers.
In his speech, Oghanna pointed out the importance of the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts and Syriac Museum continuing their partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, stressing the importance of this partnership in digitising the museum’s holdings and archaeological collections, to preserve our people’s heritage from extinction.













