Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Arab World Institute Partner for Baghdad Exhibition

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Assassin's Creed Mirage's setting of ninth-century Baghdad is a recreation of a lost city. The Abbasid Empire-era city no longer stands, but is now the subject of an exhibition at the Arab World Institute (IMA) titled Baghdad: A Journey Back to Madinat al-Salam, with Assassin's Creed Mirage, running now through November 10. While past Assassin's Creed games have been featured in other museum experiences, this collaboration marks the first time Ubisoft has co-created an exhibit based exclusively on the content of a game.

"Co-creating the exhibition with the Ubisoft team was intellectually enriching as it merged two different but complementary visions: Ubisoft's focus on imagery and the Arab World Institute's curation of art objects created a compelling dialogue between the physical and digital realms," says Director of the Arab World Institute and exhibition curator, Eric Delpont.

Dedicated entirely to the city of Baghdad during the Abbasid Empire, the exhibit aims to highlight the city as a political, scientific, cultural, and commercial capital before it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258. Visitors will be able to see a wide variety of content from Assassin's Creed Mirage, including concept art, screenshots, audio and video excerpts, and interviews with members of the development team.

"In the absence of significant archaeological remains, it is the chronicles of historians and the accounts of travelers of all origins that have preserved the memory of [Baghdad's] magnificence," says IMA President Jack Lang. "In addition to the historical expertise of our curators and pieces from the museum's collections, the exhibition is based on the content of the Assassin's Creed Mirage videogame. When all combined together, these