Prophet Mohammad Museum
متحف النبي محمد

Established	2012
Location	Al Hussein Public Parks, Amman, Jordan
Coordinates	31°59′8″N 35°49′22″E / 31.98556°N 35.82278°E / 31.98556; 35.82278
Type	museum

The Prophet Muhammad Museum (Arabic: متحف النبي محمد) is a museum about Muhammad in Amman, Jordan. The museum was opened on 15 May 2012 at the King Hussein Mosque in Al Hussein Public Parks in Amman, with King Abdullah II of Jordan officiating.^[1]

The museum includes some of Muhammad's belongings, including a single hair from his beard and his letter to the emperor of Byzantium, in which he urged him to convert to Islam. It also includes a sapling of the tree under which Muhammad rested on his way to the Levant for trade in the pre-Islamic era. The tree is located in the badia region.

References

^ "King opens Prophet Museum in Amman". Jordan News Agency (PETRA). 15 May 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

Islamic museums

Africa

Egypt (Museum of Islamic Art, Museum of Islamic Ceramics)
Libya (Islamic Museum of Tripoli, Red Castle Museum)
Morocco (Dar Batha Museum, Majorelle Garden, Marrakech Museum)
Tunisia (Bardo National Museum, Mahdia Museum, National Museum of Islamic Art)

Asia

South	Afghanistan (Museum of Islamic Art) India (Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences) Maldives (National Museum) Pakistan (Multan Museum, National Museum of Pakistan)
South East	Malaysia (Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Islamic Heritage Museum, Kelantan Islamic Museum, Malay and Islamic World Museum, Malacca Al-Quran Museum, Malacca Islamic Museum, Penang Islamic Museum, Sabah Islamic Civilisation Museum, Sabah Museum) Philippines (Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Arts) Singapore (Asian Civilisations Museum)
West	Bahrain (Beit Al Quran) Iran (Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum, Museum of the Islamic Era) Iraq (National Museum of Iraq, Sulaymaniyah Museum) Israel/Palestine (Islamic Museum, Museum for Islamic Art) Jordan (Prophet Mohammad Museum) Kuwait (Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah, Tareq Rajab Museum) Qatar (Museum of Islamic Art, National Museum of Qatar) Syria (National Museum of Damascus, National Museum of Aleppo, Raqqa Museum) Turkey Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, İstanbul Archaeology Museums, Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam, Museum of Turkish Calligraphy Art, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Topkapi Palace Museum, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum) United Arab Emirates (Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Zayed National Museum)

Europe

Denmark (David Collection)
France (Arab World Institute, Louvre)
Germany (Museum of Islamic Art)
Greece (Benaki Museum)
United Kingdom (British Museum, Burrell Collection, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, Victoria and Albert Museum)

North
America

Canada (Aga Khan Museum)
United States (America's Islamic Heritage Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Shangri La (Doris Duke))

Oceania

Australia (Islamic Museum of Australia)

Virtual

Museum with No Frontiers

Part of Islamic arts

See also

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