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Established | 2006 |
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Location | Maeen subdistrict, Madaba Governorate, Jordan |
Coordinates | 31°37′45″N 35°35′07″E / 31.629256°N 35.585321°E |
Type | History museum and natural history museum |
Website |
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The Dead Sea Museum ( Arabic: متحف البحر الميت, romanized: Matḥaf al-Baḥr al-Mayyit) is a history and natural history museum located in the Maeen subdistrict, Jordan. The museum is dedicated to showing the history of the Dead Sea and how civilizations developed around it. [1]
Among the intentions for the creation was to promote tourism, and to facilitate the public to learn more about how the Dead Sea is constituted. [2] The museum aims to raise awareness about the conservation of the Dead Sea. [3] The construction of the museum was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. [4] The museum first opened in 2006, [5] and is Jordan's first natural history museum. [6] In 2015, for International Museum Day, educational activities for students from the South Jordan Valley were organized in this place. [3]
The museum contains collections of rocks and minerals [5] The museum exhibits are divided into four sections [7]