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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,
[[Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate]] (DAAR)
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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}}
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* [[List of museums in Saudi Arabia]]
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