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BY Redda Talhouni from the Moment You Step Into the Parking MInd, BodY & Soul | HANGOUT HANGOUT | MInd, BodY & Soul THE Name of the Place: The Jordan Museum JORDAN Type of Museum: History and Cultural Date opened: Soft opening Opening Hours: Saturday, Sunday & Monday, 10 AM – 2 PM Entrance Fees: Free MUSEUM For: Every person claiming they love this country’s culture & history and yet aren’t BY Redda TalhounI willing to read about it. Plus, morning people! From the moment you step into the parking lot in Ras Al Ayn, a sense of unwavering intrigue unfolds. The history & culture story begins there with large artifacts greeting you, including a train compartment from the Ottoman Era! As you walk towards the interior campus, a quaint little that allow you a ‘hands-on’ learning in Hebrew Mishnaic dialect. Secondly, the After the Museum… fountain centers a tranquil outdoor square where the souvenir store, the book shop and café/ experience. ‘Writing Matter of Communication’ gallery In all honesty, getting your friends to join is one where attention to detail is of utmost you for a museum visit might be a slight restaurant are set to open, and to the left the entrance to The Jordan Museum. Don’t Forget Children importance. Plenty of knowledge can be difficult task. To help you do so, try luring A visit to The Jordan Museum isn’t gained from the beautiful mural displaying them by promising any of the following restricted to adults. Children can enjoy the history behind the alphabets, and AFTER activities. Management various universities including the Royal Iron Age, the Classical and Late Antique their time by spending it in ‘Makany’, which various relics will teach all there is to know 1. BROPPING! If you manage to get them to Despite the fact that The Jordan Museum Ontario Museum, the Louvre Museum and Periods and the Islamic Periods. Each is a child-specific area that enables the about the progress of language in Jordan the museum at 10, then you’ll have plenty is still under going further development the Smithsonian institution. section is explored thematically, where kids to educate themselves by partaking in through the ages. Furthermore, you can of time to grab brunch followed by the for its official opening, it was actually the nine major themes displayed are numerous creative projects and performing get your own name printed in Aramien, best deals & steals shopping anywhere in brought into fruition back in 2002 and The Exhibition the environment, food production and arts activities instigated by their visit. Nabataean and Grecian! the downtown region! Get it? BROPPING. to life on the ground in 2005. Since The enriching experience is presented to processing, visual art and architecture, The Jordan Museum is definitely building 2. LUNCH! The museum closes at 2, then, its board of Trustees, led by her all in a chronological series of exhibition cultural exchange and trade, politics and The Highlight Exhibition up to become the “comprehensive national so whenever you do get them to the Majesty Queen Rania- Al-Abdullah and spaces, starting from the Old Stone Age the military, communication and writing, Of the most notable exhibitions that you centre for learning and knowledge” it sets museum you can always promise a her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya (1,500,00 – 3600 BC) building towards industry, religions, and daily domestic should truly not miss is the controversial out to be, and with it’s upcoming full opening, lunch date after, with Abdoun and the Bint El-Hassan, have managed to form Modern Jordan (1917-2014) and projecting life in Jordan. What is more, there are Dead Sea Scrolls section, which features it will definitely leave any and all of its visitors downtown area nearby, your options are alliances with international and local into the future through the Palaeothilic several state of the art interactive spaces scroll artifacts from the Qumran site as connected with the appealing history and vast. research institutions, and collaborate with Era, the Neolithic Era, the Bronze Age, the distributed among some galleries well as the only Copper scroll, all written culture of our beloved Jordan. 10 OC MAGAZINE | 113 www.ocjordan.com www.ocjordan.com 113 | OC MAGAZINE 11.
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