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The museum is open from 9-1 and 4-6, and is closed on Tuesday
leyle Leave a Comment Address: Baron StreetDirections: In the park, diagonally across from the Amir Palace Hotel.
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The National Museum in Aleppo is open and well lit, a sharp contrast to the museum in Damascus. I was allowed photography, also unlike the Damascus Museum. The collection isn't quite so loaded with priceless historic pieces as the Museum in Damascus, but there are many treasures from all epochs nevertheless. I like the entrance statues, which are actually reproductions of Aramaic origins, but I also like the many Byzantine era sculptures and mosaics. I encourae e-mail from anyone who can help me correctly classify the photos I have here. Leave a Comment
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In the summer of 2006 the museum was underging extensive renovation, so in places it was a bit like wandering around a building site, dotted with antiquities. Hopefully, when you visit, the work will have been completed, the airconditioning will be working again and all of the exhibits will be on display.
In spite of the dust and heat inside, I found this museam fascinating, because it contained statues and artefacts from many of the archaeological sites I had visited around Syria. Of special interest was the first hall which contains many exhibits from Ugarit, including statuettes, weapons, bronze and gold figurines and jewellery, and the third hall, which has the black basalt friezes from the base of the Hittite temple at Ain Dara. There are also Byzantine mosaics.
Opening hours:summer 9am-5.30pm; winter 9am-3.30pm
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museum by call_me_rhiaLeave a Comment Address: sharia al-maariPhone: 221 24 00Directions: in the new town, next to the public park
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-The museum of popular arts and traditions.
-Al Jami Al Kabir (the great Omayyad mosque).
-The old schools, churches, mosques, baths, and ancient houses.
-Hammam Yalbougha al Nassiri.
-Khan Esh'shouneh (the Souk for traditional handicrafts).
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The Aleppo Archeological Museum, a rather unattractive 1970s building, houses an excellent collection of Syrian archeological finds. The objects on display guide the visitor through time and every civilisation that existed in Syria from pre-historic to Islamic, and most were found in and around Aleppo. The entrance of the museum is decorated with replicas of wide-eyed basalt statues found at an Aramean temple in Tell Halaf, dating from 1000 BC, while the gardens surrounding the museum contain numerous original statues and other stone objects from the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine periods. When I visited in March 2008, parts of the museum were closed for dust-generating renovations, but no effort was made to move or protect the antique aftefacts!!! The guide who forced himself upon us turned out to be worthwhile as he was able to show us sections that were closed to the public. He certainly appreciated the tip we gave him afterwards. Photography is prohibited inside the museum, but not in the central courtyard or the surrounding gardens. Attached are photos from the permitted areas.
Note: All Syrian museums are closed on Tuesdays. Address: Sharia al-MaariDirections: Extra-muros, west of Bab al-Faraj area, south of Aziziyeh.
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