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Mosul library recreated in Norfolk country house installation

Written By Unknown on Monday, April 30, 2018 | 12:34 PM

Recreation forms part of immersive six-month project at National Trust’s Blickling Estate exploring importance of books

In the cellars of one of England’s grandest country houses will be a recreation of a university library destroyed by militants in Mosul, Iraq. In a nearby corridor are copies of a bestseller censored by the Pentagon. Upstairs a book banned in China has been inserted in a bookcase of innocuous 19th century volumes.

The displays are at the National Trust’s Blickling Estate, part of an immersive six-month art project exploring the importance of books, which opens to the public on Tuesday.

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