Entrance to the Museum, Gadara - Umm Qais. Art Destination Jordan

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Entrance to the Museum

The Umm Qais Antiquity Museum is housed in the Bait Rusan, built for the Kaymaqam (highest official of a county) of the late Ottoman period. The only two-storey courtyard house stands on the highest point of the village at its northeastern corner and dominates the historical silhouette with its dome.

Umm Qais Antiquity Museum

Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara

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Entrance to the Museum

Umm Qais Antiquity Museum

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