The Jordan Museum
Location:
New Downtown Area, Ras al-Ayn Amman (Ali Bin
Abi Taleb St)
Opening Hours & Days:
10:00
- 14:00, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Entrance
Fee:
Tourists
(Non-Jordanian) –
5 JD per person
Residents –
1 JD per person
12-18
years old (Jordanian or Non-Jordanian) –
500 Fils per person
Brief Description:
The museum will
give you an excellent outlook of the history, geography, culture and geology of
Jordan, from the earliest known statues through to the Roman period.
The Jordan Museum exhibits
collections are well labeled with helpful information panels spread around the
area.
There are few interactive displays, like the traditional
Bedouin handicrafts, interactive computer displays, some collection can be
touched like the carved stones and fragments of pottery from different era.
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| Main Gate Signage |
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| The Building |
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| The Jordan Museum |
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| Main Entrance |
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| Mosaic Floor from Byzantine Period |
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| Museum Map |
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| The Jordan Museum |
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| Ain Ghazal Statue |
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| Collection from Lower to Upper Palaeolithic Period |
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| Mortar & Pestle from 12,000 BC |
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| Description on Neolithic Period |
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| Large Stone Basin |
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| Neolithic Period |
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| The Procession Wall Painting |
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| Chalcolithic Vessels and Tools |
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| Nomad Period |
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| Nomad Period |
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| Nomad Period |
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| Pottery from Bronze Age |
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| Mysterious writing from late Bronze Age |
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| History of writings |
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| Arabic Script |
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| Family Tree of Alphabet |
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| Interactive Computers |
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| Replica from Aramaic 19th Century |
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| Collection from Nabatean Period |
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| Preserved Nabatean Cloth |
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| Potteries from Nabatean Period |
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| From 1st Century AD |
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| Pottery Pipe from 3rd Century |
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| Nabatean Inscriptions |
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| Marble Statue of Apollo |
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| Hydraulic Stone Saw Machine from Jerash |
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| Wall Mosaic from Byzantine Period |
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| Dead Sea Scroll Jar |
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| Copper Scrolls |
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