National Museum of Saudi Arabia

The National Museum of Saudi Arabia is a museum of cultural history and part of the King Abd al - Aziz Centre for History, to which, besides the museum nor the King Abd al - Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives ( Darah ), the King Abd al - Aziz library and Murabb'a palace belong. The National Museum is located in Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

History

1963 created a separate department in the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which should take care of the prehistoric heritage of the country. From the Supreme Council for Antiquities was established in 1972 (since 1975: Office for Antiquities and Museums ), who developed a long-term plan for dealing with the archaeological monuments of the country. These included the addition of all known archaeological sites in the country in a register, which now includes about 40,000 sites, the publication of the first archaeological journal in the country, Atlal - The Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology, which appears regularly since 1977, and the establishment of National Museum. Since 1996, it was built after a design by architect Raymond Moriyama. He chose for shapes and colors that recall the desert landscape around Riyadh. The building ends and culminates in a crescent-shaped, ascending wall, the tip of which is reminiscent both of a minaret has also to Mecca.

The museum was opened in 1999.

Presentation

For visitors eight departments are furnished with permanent exhibitions, which are designed according to chronological eras. The eighth deals with the Hajj and the holy mosques in mosques in Mecca and Medina. In addition, there are two areas where special exhibitions can warden shown. Next service facilities are housed for the operation of the museum. Overall, the museum has a covered area of 28,000 square meters. The permanent exhibition is divided into the following departments:

  • Origin of the universe and of man. Here, the creation of the world is explained by Allah, presents geology, mineralogy and paleontology.
  • Environment (mountains, deserts and oases, as well as the surrounding sea, the Arabian Peninsula ), Prehistory and Archaeology, especially the Paleolithic.
  • Prehistoric civilizations. Here the period of about 6000 BC is shown up to 400 AD. Exemplary warden presented here, the archaeological sites of Medyan, Qaryat al - fau, Ain and Al - Zubaidah Aflai. The gallery includes a section on the development of writing in the Arabian Peninsula.
  • Jahiliyyah Gallery: Proto Islamic period ( 400-650 AD). Here, the civilization of the Arab tribes is presented in the period immediately before the occurrence of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Arabic calligraphy.
  • Time of the Prophet Mohammed. This is about the life and work of the Prophet, especially the Hijrah. Focus of the exhibition is the Koran.
  • Islam and the Arabian Peninsula. This section looks at the life of Mohamed until after the First World War. It is divided into sections: The time of the Prophet Mohamed
  • The time of the caliphs to the Ottoman Empire

Worth knowing

From January 26 to April 9, 2012 was of Islamic Art at the National Museums in Berlin at the Pergamon Museum of Berlin State Museums Museum in a special exhibition entitled Roads of Arabia - to see Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia, of a selection collections of the National Museum of Saudi Arabia showed.

Arab people History of Saudi Arabia
594019
de