The Jordan Museum — Attraction in Amman

The Museum, as defined by the World Council of Museums as is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance, and development of the community, is open to the public, collecting, preserving, researching, communicating and presenting the human heritage and its development for the purposes of education. There are tens of thousands of museums around the world that are interested in collecting objects of scientific, artistic or historical value and making them available to the public through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The Arabic Encyclopedia defines it as a "house for the preservation of ancient monuments, rare antiques, masterpieces of sculptures and paintings, and all related to cultural heritage." The museum may include works of art, history and technology. The word "museum" in Arabic means the place where rare and precious objects are collected and valued as time passes. The origin of the English Museum is the Greek origin of the word "mountain lady".The first museum for the public was opened in 1683 at the University of Oxford in London. It presented a collection of strange and rare things given by the English scholar Elias Ashmul to the university. In the late 20th century, many museums introduced new systems using modern technology, Computer equipment, sound, light and video presentations, which have made museums more dynamic and attractive, and helped improve the cultural mission of the museums You can also find many types of museums in the world: National Museums: It includes collections of fine art, such as those found in Austria, France, Holland, Spain. Art museums: which show only works of art, such as the Louvre Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the National Gallery of London. Scientific Museums: They provide exhibits on natural and technical sciences, also called natural history museums. Historical Museums: They depict the life of the past,...

Probably the nicest museum in Jordan I've been to (and I've been to a lot of them). Not included in the Jordan Pass, and is 5JD, plus undisclosed credit card fees, which is quite expensive for Jordan. Goes through the timeline of humanity and ties it into the history of humanity in Jordan. Well written English descriptions (not just short and poor translations). However, definitely lacks in the modern history department (seems to stop around 800 CE/AD). The 1001 inventions exhibits is probably really good for kids, but I wasn't looking for a children's museum... Has some interesting details on Arabian invention ideas, but the format of the exhibit is sort of off-putting for myself as an adult.

Slightly confusing layout. First is security, where they have you enter your details in a visitor log as most Jordan Pass places do. Then, ticket office where they tell you Jordan Pass isn't accepted, and charge you a princely sum. Then, entry where they scan your ticket and you can enter the exhibits. Must go slightly right through the starting science museum-esque exhibits to get to the earliest exhibits in the timeline. If you're drawn to the Dead Sea scroll exhibit (as I was, and with no clear signage to tell you otherwise) you'll end up going back in time, which isn't that appealing...

Walking to the museum there's only 1 entrance, which is the car entrance, on the South side on Ali Ben Abi Taleb St. Just walk between the 2 car barrier arms and there's a friendly security guard to direct you to the museum entrance (I was expecting more to be chastised for walking through the car entrance, but that might be the only entrance...).

Overall, I'd say this museum is a toss up on whether to go. Having visited most of the historical sites in the Jordan Pass, I didn't feel that this museum really added much additional information I hadn't already learned from those sites. Plus, it was fairly expensive and not included in the...

Included in the Jordan Pass I took the ‘no photos’ sign seriously and there were parts I now wish I had photos of. It’s a terrific museum, well curated and labelled (if you read Arabic or English). Downstairs is all antiquities of Jordan, some truly amazing finds with a lot of interactive displays which the children of other visitors seemed to live. My favourite area was the evolution of script from Egyptian Hieroglyphics to modern Arabic. There’s a computer where you can type in your name and it prints out translations into various scripts, an unexpectedly cool souvenir for my children!!

Amazing but true there are dead sea scrolls here too. There’s an excellent little vignette to tell the remarkable story of their fairly recent discovery. Upstairs is the ‘1000 inventions’. The amazing science and technology advancements during the era known in the west as ‘the dark ages’. (tbh imho our societies have swapped positions now).

Fun introductory film then interactive display area with more information, really really enjoyable!

I’m glad I came here on my first day, knowledge I picked up here has already helped my understanding at the Citadel and Roman Theatre and sure it will be useful in my road trip around Jordan.

There is no cafe here but a break room has a coin coffee machine and a water cooler. The toilets are clean...