Private Tours Guide & Personal  Drivers in Jordan  

The Jordan Archaeological Museum:

Excellent collection of the antiquities of Jordan dating from prehistoric times to the 15th century. Citadel Hill, Amman. Hours: 9:00 to 5:00 daily except Tuesday; Fridays and official holidays 10 to 4 Telephone: 4638795. Free entry.
The Jordan Archaeological Museum was built in 1951 on the Citadel Hill in Amman. It houses artifacts from all the archaeological sites in the country. The collection is arranged in chronological order and represents ancient items of daily life such as pottery, glass, flint and metal tools, as well as monumental materials such as inscriptions and statuaries. The museum also houses several jewellery inscription statuary and coin collections.
The archaeological periods represented in the museum are:
1.       The Paleolithic (1000,000 – 10,000 years ago).
2.       The Pre-pottery Neolithic (8300-5500 BC).
3.       The Pottery Neolithic (5500-4300 BC).
4.       The Chalcolithic (4300-3300 BC).
5.       The Early Bronze Age (3300-1900 BC).
6.       The Middle Bronze Age (1900-1550 BC).
7.       The Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 BC).
8.       The Iron Age (1200-550 BC).
9.       The Persian Period/Iron III (550-350 BC).
10.    The Hellenistic Period (332-63 BC).
11.    The Nabataean Period (312 BC-AD 106).
12.    The Roman Period (63 BC – AD 324).
13.    The Byzantine Period (AD 324 – 636).
The Islamic Era (AD 636 – the present).
a- The Umayyad Period (AD 661 – 750).
b- The Abbasid Period (AD 661 –750).
c- The Ayyubid/Mamluk Period (AD 1173 –1516).
Among the most important exhibits in the museum are the plaster statues from ‘Ain Ghazal, dating back to around 6000 BC, and the Dead Sea bronze scroll written in Aramaic characters.

The Jordanian Museum of Popular Traditions:

Jordanian Costumes and jewelry, Many over 100 Years old. Also mosaics from Jerash and Madaba. The Roman Amphitheater, Amman Hours: 9:00 to 5:00 daily. Telephone: 4651760. Entry fees: 150 Fils for Jordanians, 1 JD for other nationalities.
The Jordanian Museum of Popular Traditions was established in 1971. The museum is located within the eastern section of the Roman Theater in Amman. Its aims are to collect Jordanian and Palestinian folk heritage from all over Jordan, to protect and conserve this heritage and to present it for future generations. The museum is also concerned with introducing our popular heritage to the world.
The museum has five exhibition halls. The first hall is dedicated to the traditional costumes of the East Bank. In the second hall, the traditional jewellery and cosmetic items of the various regions in he East and West Banks are on display.
The third hall contains a collection of Palestinian costumes and heard-dresses. In the fourth hall there is a collection of pottery and wooden cooking pots and food preparation vessels, as well as a collection of silver jewellery and bridal dresses from the West Bank. The fifth hall, which is in a vault of the Roman Theatre, houses a collection of mosaics from Byzantine churches in Jerash and Madaba.

Jordan Folklore Museum:

Various artifacts of traditional Jordanian life, including costumes, home furnishings, musical instruments and handicrafts dating back to the 19th century. The Roman Amphitheater, Amman. Hours: 9:00 to 5:00 daily except Tuesday. Telephone: 4651742. Entry fees: 150 Fils for Jordanians, 1 JD for other nationalities.
The Jordan Folklore Museum is located within the western section of the Roman Theatre in Amman. This museum was founded by the Department of Antiquities and officially opened in 1975. The museum houses items representing the following Jordanian cultures:

The culture of the desert (Bedu).
The culture of the villages (Reef).
The culture of the towns and cities(Madineh). 
 The collection of the museum represents items of daily life from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as:
1.       Costumes of the various areas in Jordan.
2.       Utensils used for food preparation, making bread, coffee, and tea.

Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts :

Fine collection of paintings, sculptures and ceramics by contemporary Jordanian artists, as
well as work by artists of other Muslim countries. Muntazah, Jabal Laweibdeh. Hours 10:00 to
1:30 and 3:00 to 6:00 daily except Tuesday. Telephone: 4630128. Entry fees: free entry for
Jordanians, 1 JD for other nationalities.
The Royal Society for fine Arts established the Jordan National Gallery for Fine Arts at Jabel Al Weibdeh in Amman. A special wing for temporary exhibits was opened 1984. The main aims of the Gallery are:
The patronage of contemporary art in Jordan, the Arab countries, and the Third world.
Exchange of exhibitions between the gallery and other museums and cultural organizations outside Jordan.
Organizing and participating in seminars, conferences, and symposia pertaining to art and culture within and outside Jordan. Since its establishment, the Gallery has greatly expanded. Its collection which started with around 50 works of art amounts now to almost 2000, consisting of works by 520 artists from 43 Arab and Islamic countries, ranging from Brunei in the Pacific to Morocco on the Atlantic, and from Turkey and Iran on the Caspian Sea to Pakistan on the Indian Ocean. The Society has organized more Sea to Pakistan on the Indian Ocean. The Society has organized more than fifty exhibitions drawn from major drawn from major sources in Europe and America, such as the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Geneva Museum of History and Art and the Harvard Semitic Museum, for display in Amman. Turkish museums, the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo, as well as other collections in the Arab World have sent special exhibitions on loan to the Jordan National Gallery.
From its own collection, the Royal Society of Fine Arts has sent major exhibitions abroad to France, Turkey, Poland, and Great Britain.

The Royal Automobile Museum:

ENTRANCE FEES: Residents: 1 JD  Tourists: 3 JD
VISITING HOURS: Daily, except Tuesday closed.10 am till 7 pm except Friday, till 9 pm in summer.
ADDRESS: King Hussein Park  Amman, TEL: (962) 6 541 1392 ,FAX: (962) 6 464 9205

The Royal Automobile Museum depicts the history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, from the early 1920's until the present day.

The featured cars highlight the life of His Majesty the late King Hussein and his reign, as well as the many aspects of his leadership.

The museum affords the visitor an insight into the history of the Kingdom through the exhibited cars from the era King Abdullah I, the founder of the Kingdom, to the era of His Majesty King Abdullah II. These exhibits recap the development of the Kingdom in pace with the automotive advancement in the country and its transformation since the Great Arab Revolt during World War I.

One such exhibit is a 1952 Lincoln Capri that his Majesty the late King Hussein used during his studies in England and his coronation in May 1953. Another exhibit is a 1936 Cord 810 which was a wedding gift in 1955.

An exceptional collector's item is a sport 1955 Mercedes Benz 300SL "Gullwing" that the late king used to race at Jordan's Rumman Hill-Climb.

Rare photo archives and video footage are used throughout the museum. A multimedia room, a library, as well as a souvenir shop are available to provide the visitor with a comprehensive historical and educational experience.

The museum is the first in Jordan equipped with a personal electronic narration in four languages. EasyGuide system allows you to enjoy an in-depth and comprehensive visit of the museum at your own pace. The narration is available in Arabic, English, Spanish, and German languages.

 

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