Aden National Museum

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Aden National Museum
National Museum Aden.jpg
Data
place Aden , Yemen
Art
opening 1966
management
Raja Batawil

The National Museum ( Arabic المتحف الوطني) is an archaeological museum in the Yemeni city ​​of Aden . It is one of the largest museums in the country and houses over five hundred finds from the South Arabian region, including the Kaiky Muncherjee collection .

history

The museum was founded in 1966 when Aden, as a state of the South Arabian Federation, was still under British protectorate. It was housed in a colonial -style palace building in the "crater" of Aden, which was built as the seat of government of the Sultanate of Lahidsch .

Looting took place during the civil war in Yemen in 1994 and part of the collection was lost.

According to the media, the third floor of the National Museum was completely or partially destroyed during the military intervention in Yemen in 2015 .

Exhibits

Capital from the palace of Shabwat , around 250 AD (Aden NAM 1218)

The museum houses most of the collection of the Indian trader Kaiky Muncherjee, who amassed a large number of South Arabian artifacts in the early 20th century. The focus of the collection is on finds from the kingdoms of Qataban , Ausan and Hadramaut , especially statues, alabaster steles and smoke vessels. It also houses numerous inscribed statue bases from the Sabaean temple Awwam , which are dedicated to the Sabaean empire god Almaqah , and a department for bronzes.

In addition to the Old South Arabian collection, the museum offers space for a smaller collection of Islamic art and for ethnographic exhibits.

In 2008–2009, the museum's inscriptions were made accessible and published as part of the CASIS project.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Destruction of Yemeni Cultural Heritage - Threatened Treasures of Mankind ( Memento from July 3, 2015 on WebCite ) , de.qantara.de, June 18, 2015, by Amida Sholan (translation from the Arabic by Günther Orth).
  2. ↑ See Albert Jamme: Les albums photographiques de la collection Kaiky Muncherjee (= Studi orientali. Pubblicati a cura della Scuola orientale , Volume 3). Rome, Giovanni Bardi 1955.
  3. ↑ CASIS project

Coordinates: 12 ° 46 ′ 44.4 "  N , 45 ° 2 ′ 34.5"  E