Makkah Museum
The Kingdom is considered one of the countries that enjoys an ancient civilization, and has a lot of heritage. Today we will talk about the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Museum, which is considered one of those great legacies.
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Makkah Museum
The halls of the Makkah Museum
Makkah Museum space
Makkah Museum
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contains a great cultural, historical and heritage history and heritage, which is distributed over all regions.
Museums are the origin of that legacy, as their content is the history and civilization of the place, but they attract many visitors, both locals and tourists from around the world, to watch that history.
The Makkah Al Mukarramah Museum is one of those prominent tourist attractions in the Kingdom. In addition, it is one of the museums of the Makkah Al Mukarramah region.
Work began on the construction of the Makkah Museum Palace in the year 1365 AH, corresponding to 1946 AD, and this came by a royal order from King Abdul Aziz.
The construction of this palace took about seven years, the work of it was completed in 1372 AH 1952, and it was used for a period of time as a hospitality palace, and then it was granted in 1378 AH to the Ministry of Education.
At that time, the Ministry of Education turned it into the headquarters of Al-Zahir Intermediate School, for this reason, it repurposed its rooms and halls into classrooms, and it was used as a school until 1398 AH. The architectural condition it was in previously since the beginning of its construction.
Makkah Museum space
As for the area of the Makkah Museum Palace, it is about 3425 square meters, which was distributed on a front yard of 1200 square meters, next to the main building of the palace and this is an area of 1000 square meters
It also has a rear annex, which measures an area of 425 square meters, in relation to the rest of the spaces occupied by roads and corridors around the palace.
The agency hired the palace and considered it a museum of antiquities and heritage in Makkah Al Mukarramah, and all this in order to serve the heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to its history and civilization in general and Makkah Al Mukarramah in particular.
The halls of the Makkah Museum
The museum contains a number of halls and floors, and each hall has contents and matters related to it, and below we will review for you, the details of these halls in detail:
- On the ground floor of the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Museum, which is a large hall, and in the middle there is a fountain, which is made of colored marble, where the dome of the palace is topped, and you will find it carried on 24 circular columns, while 12 columns on the ground floor are located in the upper floor.
While the halls overlook the hall in the museum, which were distributed as follows :
The halls that are on the right side are for displaying the landmarks of the Kingdom’s antiquities as well as the prehistoric antiquities of Makkah. There is also the office of the Museum Director and his staff in this hall. The geological and natural history that exists in the city of Makkah is displayed in this hall.
- In the halls on the left side, they were designated as a resting place for visitors, in addition to that, they contain the antiquities of pre-Islamic Mecca, as well as the library, and then there is the corridor, which you will find up to the kitchen that has been equipped so that it is the headquarters of the administration Feminism of the Museum.
- While in the upper floor, which is located on the right side, there are the halls of the Prophet's biography, in addition to the development of writing, coins and pilgrimage.
- As for the halls on the left, they were designated to be the architecture of the Grand Mosque as well as the Saudi state in its three stages, as well as halls dedicated to education and the Meccan heritage, in addition to a display in the middle of masterpieces of Islamic art, while on the roof you will find the annex that was equipped in order to be a hall Lectures.
Museum contents:
Below we will get acquainted with the contents of the museum, namely:
First hall:
The first hall in the Makkah Museum of Antiquities and Saudi Heritage contains a set of pictures of the most prominent historical and archaeological landmarks and places that exist in the Kingdom. You will notice when entering this museum that most of these pictures have rock inscriptions and drawings, in addition to historical castles, cities and mosques.
The first hall also contains 5 vaults, all of which you will find contain a number of fossils of some living creatures, which may have been living on Saudi land millions of years ago.
In this hall there are also a number of distinguished and selected collectibles dating back to the Stone Age, in addition to being made of flint stone in the old Riyadh region.
It also contains a group of enchanting pottery, which were found in two locations in Jazan and Athar.
Prehistoric Hall:
In that room, the special history of the Arabian Peninsula is narrated, in addition to explaining the distinguished geographical location in that region.
In addition, it contains a set of topographic maps of the plains of the Kingdom in addition to its ancient mountains, but it includes a number of maps that are more than 200 years old, depicting some cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for example, a map of the ancient Kingdom of Najd.
The Natural Environment Hall of Makkah Al-Mukarramah:
In the natural environment hall of Makkah Al-Mukarramah in the museum, only a side of the natural history as well as the geology of the city of Makkah Al-Mukarramah are displayed.
In addition, some types of living creatures that lived in Mecca until this time are also displayed in the hall, and this history is displayed through 5 other vaults where it is displayed in the museum lobby during the visitor's entry to it in a distinctive and attractive way.
Mecca Hall:
It is possible for a visitor to the museum, through the Mecca Hall, to learn about the origins of Mecca, in addition to its ancient markets, which existed in pre-Islamic times.
It is also possible to identify the public place that includes all aspects of human activity that exist in the Arabian Peninsula, whether it is “economic, social, cultural or religious, as well as pilgrimage and building a house.”
The hall has a plan for the winter and summer trip, as well as the elephant incident in which the Ethiopians wanted to invade the holy city of Mecca.
This hall also contains a display of various inscriptions, which were written in the southern and northern Musnad pen, in addition to the Thamudic inscriptions.
Hajj hall:
This hall is one of the very special and special halls in the museum due to its large area in addition to the grandeur of what is displayed in it.
This hall contains a number of the most sacred and spiritual documents in Islam, for example, “books for some ancient pilgrimage routes, as well as routes to the city of Mecca.”
It also contains pictures of the Kaaba as well as a plan, in addition to several models of a group of Hajj rituals, and there are rest areas for pilgrims since ancient times while they were on their way to Mecca to perform the Hajj.
Islamic Art Hall:
Finally, the Islamic Art Hall, in which a number of selected collections of Islamic art are displayed, in addition to antiques, those dating back to the periods of the founding of the Islamic state.
In that hall there are a number of most personal items related to Islamic art, including, for example, “pots, jars, and inscriptions in ancient Islamic Arabic calligraphy.”
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