Amman Culture: The Jordan Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls Fragment, the Nabataean Collection, the Folklore Museum, and the Amman Heritage Circuit
The Amman culture route covers the Jordan Museum as the most comprehensively modern single national museum in the Arab world, the Dead Sea Scrolls fragment, the Nabataean archaeological collection, the Folklore Museum, and the Amman heritage circuit.
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Jordan Museum: The National Archaeological Heritage
The Jordan Museum (opened 2014, the most comprehensively modern single national museum in the Arab world with the climate-controlled 10,000-piece archaeological collection from the most important single Jordan excavations), is the most educationally complete single Jordan cultural institution with the most chronologically comprehensive single display from the Ain Ghazal Neolithic statues (the most ancient single large-scale human sculpture in the world, 7250 BC) to the Islamic period.
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Dead Sea Scrolls: The Amman Fragment
The Jordan Museum Dead Sea Scrolls fragment (the most internationally significant single Jordanian museum artifact, a portion of the most ancient single surviving biblical text manuscripts, dating from 250 BC to 68 AD and discovered in the Qumran caves on the Jordanian territory of the West Bank in 1947), is the most archaeologically consequential single document in the Jordan national collection and the artifact most directly relevant to the most globally significant single biblical archaeology discovery.
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Ain Ghazal Statues: The 9000-Year Sculptures
The Ain Ghazal Neolithic plaster statues (9000 BC, the most ancient single large-scale human sculptures in the world, discovered at the Ain Ghazal archaeological site in Amman in 1983 during road construction and now the most prized single Jordan Museum artifacts), are the most dramatically ancient single human figurative artworks in any national museum collection and the sculptures that most completely challenge the received history of human artistic development.
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Folklore Museum and Popular Traditions Museum: The Living Heritage
The Jordan Folklore Museum and the Museum of Popular Traditions (both in the Roman Theatre wings) house the most accessible single Jordanian traditional costume, the most complete single Bedouin tent reconstruction, and the most comprehensively displayed single traditional Jordanian craft collection including the Madaba embroidery, the Palestinian cross-stitch, and the Jordanian silver jewelry in the most practically convenient single Amman heritage museum circuit.
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Darat al-Funun: The Contemporary Art Center
Darat al-Funun (House of the Arts, the most internationally recognized single contemporary art center in Amman, established 1993 in the most beautifully restored single Ottoman-era villa complex on Jabal Luweibdeh overlooking the Amman downtown), is the most institutionally significant single Arab contemporary art platform with the most consistently programmed single Jordanian contemporary visual art exhibition calendar and the most architecturally atmospheric single Amman cultural venue.
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Jabal Luweibdeh: The Arts and Culture District
Jabal Luweibdeh, the most artistically concentrated single Amman neighborhood with the Darat al-Funun, the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, the Film Lab, and the most historically preserved single early 20th century Amman residential architecture, is the most culturally dynamic single Amman district for the visitor interested in the most contemporary single Jordanian visual arts scene and the most historically preserved single Amman neighborhood streetscape.
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