Welcome to the online home of the Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum! While some sections of this website are still under construction, planners hope visitors can capture, embrace, and celebrate the possibilities of this new endeavor in historic downtown Madaba to help preserve the region's past and to provide economic growth for the present.

The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum (MRAM) will be a state-of-the-art regional archaeological museum that employs best practices to preserve and display artifacts from Madaba and sites in the area bounded by southern Amman, the Dead Sea, the Wadi Mujib, and the eastern desert.

In a period when cultural heritage is in danger throughout the region, this project seeks to protect, develop, and showcase thousands of years of antiquity in the irreplaceable historic, architectural, and cultural remains of Madaba and the surrounding region.

The Madaba Archaeological Park West is home to a wide variety of archaeological and cultural heritage structures. The archaeological park functions as an historical microcosm, showing the long, rich, and diverse history of Madaba’s occupation on the entire tell over thousands of years.

In 1998, excavations began on the west side of the city’s acropolis in two areas separated by a monumental, pre-classical fortification wall. The remains in both of these areas reflect Madaba’s waxing and waning fortunes as a regional center for over 5,000 years.

- 2019 The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Preserving the Archaeological Park while Envisioning a New Museum. Presentation for the 14th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, 22 January, Florence, Italy.

In a period when cultural heritage is in danger throughout the region, this project seeks to protect, develop, and showcase thousands of years of antiquity in the irreplaceable historic, architectural, and cultural remains of Madaba and the surrounding region.

Building 1 of the traditional late 19th-century settlement, part of the ground floor of the new museum

MRAMP focuses on archaeologically preparing an endangered urban area – the Madaba Archaeological Park West (II) - for the construction of a new regional museum (MRAM) to make accessible and display archaeological materials from the Madaba region.

Madaba. Significant city from the iron age through Byzantine times; best known for its byzantine mosaics, especially the map in St. George's Orthodox Church. Read More