US Internet giant Google will soon begin digitising artefacts and documents at Iraq's National Museum, its chief executive said in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Eric Schmidt, on the last day of a three-day tour of the country, told reporters that some 14,000 digital images taken at the museum would be freely available online from the beginning of next year.

"Google's mission all over the world is to make information available to everyone," he said. "There's a tremendous amount of information in the Arab world that is neither understood nor broadly available to everyone else."

He added: "More than 14,000 images that we've taken, plus a few surprises, will be available to everyone in the world, early next year."

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