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museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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National Museum of Damascus The National Museum of Damascus ( ar, الْمَتْحَفُ الْوَطَنِيُّ بِدِمَشْقَ) is a museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria. As the country's national museum as well as its largest, this museum covers the entire range o ...
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National Museum of Aleppo The National Museum of Aleppo ( ar, متحف حلب الوطني) is the largest museum in the city of Aleppo, Syria, and was founded in 1931. It is located in the heart of the northern city on Baron Street, adjacent to the famous Baron Hotel and ...
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National Museum of Latakia The National Museum of Latakia ( ar, المتحف الوطني في اللاذقية), also known as the Latakia Museum ( ar, متحف اللاذقية), is a museum located in the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, near the city's seafront, facing th ...
* National Museum of Tartous * National Museum of the Arts and popular Traditions of Syria * Palmyra Museum *
Deir ez-Zor Museum The Deir ez-Zor Museum ( ar, متحف دير الزور) is a museum devoted to the archaeology and history of northeastern Syria, an area more commonly known as the Jezirah, or Upper Mesopotamia. The museum is located in Deir ez-Zor, the capita ...
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Raqqa Museum The Museum of Raqqa, also known as the Ar-Raqqah Museum or Rakka Museum ( ar, مَتْحَفُ الرَّقَّةِ, Matḥaf ar-Raqqah), is a museum in Raqqa, Syria founded in 1981. The structure housing the museum was built in 1861 and served a ...
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Homs Museum Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...
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Idleb Museum ar, إدلبي, Idlibi , coordinates = , elevation_m = 500 , area_code = 23 , geocode = C3871 , blank_name = Köppen climate classifi ...
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Suweida Museum As-Suwayda ( ar, ٱلسُّوَيْدَاء / ALA-LC romanization: ''as-Suwaydāʾ''), also spelled ''Sweida'' or ''Swaida'', is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the Jordan–Syria border, border with Jordan. It is the ...
(Municipality Building) * Ma'arrat al-Nu'man Museum (Mossaic Museum) * Qalaat al-Madiq (Citadel) * Arwad Museum (Citadel) * Bosra Museum (Citadel) * Archeological Museum of Shahba * Apamea Museum * Ebla Museum * Amrit Museum *
Khan As'ad Pasha Khan As'ad Pasha ( ar, خَان أَسْعَد بَاشَا, Khān ʾAsʿad Bāşā) is the largest caravanserai () in the Old City of Damascus, covering an area of . Situated along Al-Buzuriyah Souq, it was built and named after As'ad Pasha al-Az ...
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Azm Palace Al-Azem Palace ( ar, قصر العظم) is a palace in Damascus, Syria, built in 1749. Located north of Al-Buzuriyah Souq in the Ancient City of Damascus, the palace was built in 1749 to be the private residence for As'ad Pasha al-Azem, the gove ...
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Azm Palace (Hama) The Azm Palace ( ar, بيت العظم, ''Beit al-Azem'') is an 18th-century Ottoman-era palace in Hama, Syria at the center of the city on the banks of the Orontes River, about south of the Hama Citadel.Beatti (1996), p. 318. Ross Burns, author ...
* Aleppo Citadel Museum *
Beit Ghazaleh Beit Ghazaleh (The Ġazaleh House; ar, غزالة) is one of the largest and better-preserved palaces from the Ottoman period in Aleppo. It was named after the Ghazaleh family that owned it for about two centuries. Since 1914, it was used ...
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Beit Achiqbash Beit Achiqbash (Arabic: بيت أجقباش في الجديدة); (''Bait Achikbache House'', ''Bayt Ajiqbash,'' ''Maison Ajikbash'') is an old Aleppine courtyard mansion built in the mid 18th Century by Qarah Ali (Karaly), a wealthy Christian me ...
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Beit Junblatt Beit Junblatt ( ar, بيت جنبلاط) is a historic mansion in Aleppo, Syria, built in the 16th century by a Kurdish emir of the Janbulad family. Background Beit Junblatt ( ar, بيت جنبلاط); originally Janpolad Palace ( ar, قصر ...
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Al-Shibani Church Al-Shibani Church ( ar, كنيسة الشيباني, Kanīsa aš-Šībānī), also known as al-Shibani School ( ar, مدرسة الشيباني, Madrasa aš-Šībānī), is a 12th-century religious and cultural centre located in al-Jalloum distric ...
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Khanqah al-Farafira Khanqah al-Farafira ( ar, خانقاه الفرافرة) is a 13th-century Sufi monastery located in "al-Farafira district at the heart of the Ancient City of Aleppo, Syria. The khanqah was built in 1237 by the efforts of Dayfa Khatun the regent ru ...
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Maktab Anbar Maktab Anbar ( ar, مكتب عنبر) (Anbar Office) is a house in the center of Old Damascus, Syria. The house was built as a private residence by a local Syrian Jews, Jewish notable Mr. Anbar in the mid 19th century and was later confiscated by th ...
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Nur al-Din Bimaristan Nur al-Din Bimaristan ( ar, البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval ''bimaristan'' ("hospital") in Damascus, Syria. It is located in the al-Hariqa Al-Hariqa ( ar, الحريقة) is a neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. It lies ...
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Damascus) The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( ar, ضريح الجندي المجهول) is a war memorial, dedicated to the Syrian soldiers killed during battle. It is visited every year by the President of Syria on Martyrs' Day (May 6). Two Quran verses are ...
*Al-Khatt al-Arabi (Arabic Calligraphy, Damascus) *
Museum of Epigraphy (Damascus) A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that Preservation (library and archival science), cares for and displays a collection (artwork), collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, culture, cultu ...
*Al-Bayt al-Shami (Historical museum of Damascus) * Damascus Museum of Agriculture


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Culture of Syria Syria is a traditional society with a long cultural history. Importance is placed on family, religion, education and self-discipline and respect. The Syrian's taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh ...
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List of museums A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temp ...


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Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...