The Afghanistan Museum in Excile, located in Switzerland, is closing up shop and moving its colleciton to Kabul.

The museum in exile is in the village of Bubendorf, 20 kilometres outside Basel. It was established by Swiss scholar Paul Bucherer-Dietschi in 1999, to house artefacts from war-torn Afghanistan.

But politics quickly intervened, and initial plans to temporarily evacuate the Kabul Museum’s collection were never implemented, because of problems in Afghanistan and a lack of support from Unesco.  

The buidling that the museum returns to was heavily damaged, mainly by the Taliban in 2001, was reconstructed two years ago.

via The Art Newspaper