Jordan Museum

About Jordan Museum

The Jordan Museum is located in Ras al-Ein district of Amman, Jordan. Built in 2014, the museum is the largest museum in Jordan and hosts some of the country's most important archaeological findings. Its two main permanent exhibitions are the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Copper Scroll, and the 9000-year-old ʿAin Ghazal statues, which are among the oldest human statues ever made.

The Jordan Museum is the country's largest museum and the place where Jordan's story is told from its earliest inhabitants to the present. It opened in 2014 in a modern building in the Ras al-Ain district of downtown Amman, next to the Greater Amman Municipality building and within walking distance of the Roman Theatre and the Citadel. It covers more than 10,000 square metres with exhibition halls, lecture rooms, a library, a conservation centre and a children's area; Queen Rania chaired the committee that created it, and it is the only museum in Jordan equipped with modern conservation technology. Its most famous exhibits are the Ain Ghazal statues, human figures of lime plaster about 9,000 years old (c. 7250 BC) found in a suburb of Amman and among the oldest large human statues in the world. The museum also displays parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the unique Copper Scroll engraved on metal rather than parchment, a replica of the Moabite Mesha Stele, and galleries on the Nabataeans and Petra and on the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods through to modern Jordan. Many pieces formerly in the Citadel museum have been moved here, which makes it the best introduction to what you will see at Petra, Jerash and Umm Qais.

Where:

Amman, Jordan