The Khuzam Palace is a major

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and

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Jeddah Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...

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. It houses the Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.

History and the building

The Museum is in the historic Khuzam Palace in the Al-Nuzlah al-Yamaniyah quarter in the south of Jeddah. The building was constructed as a royal palace from 1928 to 1932 under the supervision of Muhammed bin Laden. The oil agreement with the

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was signed by Abdullah Suleiman on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Lloyd N. Hamilton on behalf of the company in Khuzam Palace, Jeddah, in 1933. Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate (DAAR) have been commissioned to develop the area on 11 October 2008 by the

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The exhibitions

The collection ranges from artefacts of the

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attributed to the

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period found in nearby Wadi Fatimah over items of several pre-Islamic cultures and items illustrating the rise of Islam to relicts from the time the palace was used by the royal family. A second collection holds ethnographic items portraying the recent culture of the region.

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History and the building

The exhibitions

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