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{{Short description|Palace and museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia}}
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The '''Khuzam Palace''' is a major [[palace]] and [[museum]] in [[Jeddah]], [[Saudi Arabia]]. 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]].{{fact|date=March 2021}} The oil agreement with the [[Standard Oil Company of California]] was signed by [[Abdullah bin Suleiman Al Hamdan|Abdullah Suleiman]] on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Lloyd N. Hamilton on behalf of the company in Khuzam Palace, [[Jeddah, in 1933.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Rasoul Sorkhabi|title=The Emergence of the Arabian Oil Industry|journal=GEOExPro|date=2008|volume=5|issue=6|url=https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2008/06/the-emergence-of-the-arabian-oil-industry}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|author=Mohammad Zaid Al Kahtani|title=The Foreign Policy of King Abdulaziz (1927- 1953)|url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/529/1/uk_bl_ethos_412035.pdf|location=University of Leeds|access-date=2 January 2021|page=215|degree=PhD|date=October 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|author=Fahd M. Al Nafjan|title=The Origins of Saudi-American Relations: From recognition to diplomatic representation (1931-1943)|url=https://searchwww.proquest.com/docview/303791009|access-date=10 May 2021|location=University of Kansas|page=141|degree=PhD|date=1989|id={{ProQuest|303791009}}}}</ref>
 
[[Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate]] (DAAR) <ref>[{{cite web| url=http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081017094619 ''"| title=Dar Al Arkan announces the launch by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of a project to develop Qasr Khozam area in the center of Jeddah city."''] from| date=17 October 2008 at| "website=zawya.com" }}</ref> have been commissioned to develop the area on 11 October 2008 by the [[Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques]].{{fact|date=March 2021}}
 
== The exhibitions ==
The collection ranges from artefacts of the [[Stone Age]] attributed to the [[Acheulean]] 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.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
 
== See also ==
 
* [[List of museums in Saudi Arabia]]
 
== References ==
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==External links==
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