Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah joined the Children's Museum's staff, partners, and donors on Wednesday September 7th to commemorate the museum's 15th anniversary and to inaugurate its newly upgraded Technology and Communications Exhibition.
Her Majesty met the museum's staff and toured the recently refurbished Technology and Communications space, accompanied by the museum's director, Sawsan Dalaq, and Zain Jordan's CEO, Fahad Al Jassem.
The Technology and Communications section was renovated with the help of Zain Jordan, the museum's founding partner, and redesigned by two Jordanian engineers, Batool Ghanem and Shahd Al Khateeb, whose winning designs were chosen in a competition overseen by Zain's innovation campus, ZINC, and the museum's design and exhibitions team.
The multifaceted space now features interactive exhibits that teach young visitors about the workings of the digital world and cover a wide range of technology-related disciplines, such as coding, the Internet of Things, the digital cloud, cybersecurity, and data confidentiality and protection.
Her Majesty later joined a group of the museum's donors and partners at a reception that highlighted the museum's accomplishments over the years in a short video. Among its most notable achievements are the Museum for All initiative, which provides subsidized, free museum admission to charity organizations, orphanages, low-income families, and refugees, and the Mobile Museum initiative, which tours Jordan's governorates and remote areas year round, allowing children to participate in the museum's unique learning experiences.
During the reception, Dalaq and the museum's board of directors chairman, Raja Gharghor, thanked Her Majesty for bringing to life one of the country's most visited museums, highlighting the museum's lasting impact on its visitors as well as its continued role in nourishing children's curiosity, creativity, skills, and imagination.
The Children's Museum Jordan, founded by Her Majesty in 2007, is an educational non-profit organization that houses 185 indoor and outdoor interactive exhibits. It also houses a library, an art studio, and the Secret Garden, among other educational facilities. The museum hosts a number of events throughout the year, including year-round programs, camps, science shows and demonstrations, and The Science and Arts Festival.
The museum has welcomed over 3.3 million visitors and benefited over 900,000 students from public, private, and UNRWA schools through its exhibits, initiatives, and programs since its inception.
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For the event, Her Majesty wore a new AZ FACTORY X Thebe Magugu printed recycled satin-twill shirt with asymmetric SQUID INK PLEATED SKIRT, WHITE / BLUE. She paired it with Ralph Masri Diamond Geometric Earring and Dior satin ombre lucite heel pumps
