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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 | www |
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.
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. The museum aims to raise awareness about the conservation of the Dead Sea. The construction of the museum was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. The museum first opened in 2006, and is Jordan's first natural history museum. In 2015, for International Museum Day, educational activities for students from the South Jordan Valley were organized in this place.
The museum contains collections of rocks and minerals The museum exhibits are divided into four sections
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