On the occasion of the first physical exhibition of the virtual justice-seeking ISIS Prisons Museum (IPM) we cordially invite you to the exhibition’s opening and following concert by world renowned musician and UNESCO Artist for Peace Naseer Shamma.

Wednesday, November 6th  

5:00 PM - exhibition opening 

6:30 PM - concert  

UNESCO 

7, place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris 

“Three Walls. Spatial Narratives of Old Mosul” uses state of the art digital technology to take you on a journey through the Old Town of Mosul as it was and how it got destroyed. The exhibition focuses on the history and use of three buildings in Old Mosul: the al-Nuri Mosque, the Meydan House and the Syriac-Catholic Church. They symbolize its millennial old history of peaceful coexistence and the brutal incursion into public and private lives by ISIS. 

To mark the opening, Naseer Shamma, the famous Iraqi oud player and UNESCO Artist for Peace, will be giving a concert at UNESCO headquarters (18:30). We invite you to join us on his journey through the melodies of Mosul, to celebrate the ancestral musical traditions of this city with its unique cultural heritage and global reach. 

We kindly ask you to RSVP for the exhibition opening at 

[email protected], by November 4, 2024. 

Please bring a photo ID to access the UNESCO building. 

The exhibition is open from November 7 to 14, 2024, 9 AM - 5 PM (closed on Saturday and Sunday) 

The virtual ISIS Prisons Museum (IPM) is an effort to contribute to accountability for crimes committed by ISIS and seeks justice for the victims. It uses forensic evidence meticulously recorded on location and gathered in an archive to recreate crime scenes and traces left by victims.

The IPM archive includes an interactive searchable database of over 70,000 documents left behind by ISIS, hundreds of video interviews with survivors of ISIS prisons, physical objects, and drone footage of mass graves. Since 2017, the IPM has designed hundreds of virtual tours of prisons, mass graves, and urban environments. These too form an important part of the archive. They involve interactive 3D documentation of the sites and 3D reconstructions of crime scenes. UMAM D&R has collaborated on and supported the work of the IPM since 2020.