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The paper presents the vision inspiring the MAdaba Regional Archaeological Museum Prokect (MRAMP), Jordan and reports on the results of the 2016 Pilot Season.

Te MRAMP represents an American-Italian-Jordanian collaboration dedicated to protecting cultural heritage in Jordan. Te proposed new Regional Archaeological Museum within the Madaba Archaeological Park West is an ambitious project to restore and safeguard a complex of Jordanian traditional buildings from the late nineteenth-century Ottoman era within a museum. The complex will ultimately constitute the ground foor while the contiguous “Burnt Palace,” Roman cardo, and Martyr’s Church will round out an envisioned museum complex. Tanks to a dozen or more regional archaeological sites,

This paper is an introduction to a new Museum project to protect, restore, and preserve the cultural heritage of the Madaba Region - the endangered antiquities sites in the city, and the artifactual collection from the regional excavations. The paper discusses MRAMP’s focus
on community archaeology and community engagement, the innovative design to safeguard heritage by encompassing an ancient site within a Museum, and the impact this project will have on the cultural, social, and economic life of the community.