The museum was first opened by the Italian Archaeological Mission in 1966 in the restored sixteenth-century Mausoleum of Abd al-Razzaq to display artifacts of the Islamic period.
[1] Work was halted during the war with the Soviet Union after 1979 in which several of its artifacts were damaged.
A number of artifacts unearthed in the Ghazni area are also found in museums in Kabul.
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