Amman Archaeological Museum
The Jordan Museum of Archeology ( Arabic متحف الآثار الأردني, DMG Matḥaf al-Āṯār al-Urdunnī ) was the main museum in Amman until 2014 . It is located on the city's citadel hill .
The museum was built in 1951 and showed exhibits from archaeological sites from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period from Jordan .
The collections are presented in chronological order on two floors with a total of 525 m². They contain everyday objects such as flint, glass, metal or ceramic vessels as well as statues (including the standing ammonite ), jewelry and other works of art. The museum also has a coin collection. Since 2014, some of the exhibits have been on view in the new Jordanian National Museum in Ras Al-Ein in Amman.
The project “DOJAM - Documentation of Objects in Jordanian Archaeological Museums” between the DEI Amman and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (DoA) has been running since January 2017 . It is dedicated to the preservation and inventory of the archaeological objects that are stored or exhibited in the museums of Jordan. Work began in the Amman Archaeological Museum.
A branch of the museum was the Palestinian National Museum (Rockefeller Museum ) in the then Jordanian-occupied East Jerusalem , which was nationalized by the Jordanian government in 1966. Since the conquest of East Jerusalem by Israel in the Six Day War, the museum has been under Israeli administration.
Web links
- Jordan Ministry of Culture: Page on the Jordan Museum of Archeology
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit Jordan information .
- ↑ transasien.org
- ^ Jordan Archaeological Museum. discoverislamicart.org, accessed February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ DOJAM - Protection of Cultural Property in Jordan
Coordinates: 31 ° 57 '15.2 " N , 35 ° 56' 3.6" E